Jennifer Krebs uses this site to share her professional and personal interests:
Bookworm Musings
Small Fry, by Lisa Brennan-Jobs
All I can say is TMI on Steve Jobs. Yes, he's an interesting character...but I didn't realize that he'd appear on every other page of this memoir. Next time, a book more about actual small fry or French fries or who Lisa Brennan Jobs is without her dad.
Savage
The Savage Detectives, by Roberto Bolaño, a fantastic counterpoint to Asymmetry, by Lisa Halliday. Both in 3 parts. Both about the process of writing, dialogs/beefs/paeans to other writers, and both set in a variety of locales. While Bolaño is, at times, coarse &...
Hark, by Sam Lipsyte
I wonder if I would have enjoyed this book better had someone other than Sam Lipsyte read it. I can understand an author wanting the extra royalty, and so committing to read a work to be published as an audiobook. Maybe some have told Lipsyte that he’s a great...