May We Be Forgiven

- You know you were making all these little beeping chortly noises when you were reading this one but then you went quiet and just sort of grunted and ground your teeth. - I do not do that! - Well, what went wrong? - Hmmm (grinds teeth, grunts). - Well did you like it? - That’s too hard to answer. - Wel......more

A very dark comedy of family life. I laughed out loud reading it. It's about a hapless man whose brother is a bully and has it all in life. The brother hits a car and kills 2 people and ends up in the hospital. Then the bully brother goes a bit insane. The hapless man helps the brothers wife, who he......more

much to enjoy in this flawed but often brilliant sprawl of a novel. its five hundred pages breezed by. parts were great. but two words: magical negro. and maybe this is a tangential point (and one that speaks about the novel's structural fissures more than any latent racism), but an issue that was i......more

If there was ever a novel in serious need of plot speed-bumps such as weather descriptions, it’s this one. You would think that in a 500 page novel the author would take her time and let things unravel slowly. No, not Homes. It was a crazy ride in a convertible with Homes behind the wheel and me sit......more

This book is sort of like this. In case the video doesn't make it clear, it's a roller-coaster. Normally on a roller-coaster there is that sort of long build up while you creak towards the top to be dropped into the rollicking fun. In this one, right after you start what you expect to be a slow asce......more