Zoë Lance.

  • What I Read: February 2017

    2017 is my year of reading books written by women. Here’s what I read in February: Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. This is the first of anything I’ve ever read from Margaret Atwood, and two things brought me to this novel: the upcoming Hulu show, and its resurgence in literary discourse as an example of…

  • What I Read: December 2016

    To help me stay on track in my 2016 goals, I documented the books I read all year. I want to make sure I get out some thoughts close enough to December, so I’m sticking with the three-sentence model I’ve been using the past few months. Here’s what I read at the end of 2016:…

  • What I Read: July 2016

    To help me stay on track in my 2016 goals, I’m documenting the books I read all year. Here’s what I read in July: Hassan Blasim’s The Corpse Exhibition. I first heard about The Corpse Exhibition at a literature lecture at my alma mater. I keep a small notebook in my purse at all times…

  • What I Read: June 2016

    To help me stay on track in my 2016 goals, I’m documenting the books I read all year. Here’s what I read in June: David Foster Wallace’s Brief Interviews with Hideous Men. I bought this 23-story fiction collection at The Last Bookstore approximately 1 million years ago, and finally pulled it out of my bookshelf at…

  • What I Read: May 2016

    To help me stay on track in my 2016 goals, I’m documenting the books I read all year. Here’s what I read in May: Paul Auster’s In the Country of Last Things. I bought this book a few years ago for a class where it ended up getting replaced on the syllabus, but I figured I…

  • What I Read: April 2016

    To help me stay on track in my 2016 goals, I’m documenting the books I read all year. Here is what I read in April: My Life On The Road, by Gloria Steinem: Gloria Steinem’s memoir had been on my reading list for awhile, because although I’ve read about her I wanted to learn more about who she is…

  • What I Read: March 2016

    To help me stay on track in my 2016 goals, I’m documenting the books I read all year. Here’s what I read in March: Catch-22, by Joseph Heller: I hadn’t read this book in high school or college, so while filling a ThriftBooks binge I decided to give Catch-22 a go. I knew that it was a…

  • What I Read: February 2016

    To help me stay on track in my 2016 goals, I’m documenting the books I read all year. Here is what I read in February: Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison: I bought this book from ThriftBooks a few months ago because I had heard the title and the author’s name multiple times in college classes. I…

  • What I Read: January 2016

    To help me stay on track in my 2016 goals, I’m documenting the books I read all year here. Here is what I read in January: Alexander Hamilton, by Ron Chernow: As you may know, I loved the musical inspired by this biography of the Founding Father of the United States and the country’s first Treasury Secretary.…

  • Gold Star for the Internet: Thrift Books

    The only bad thing about having an appetite for literature is that buying books can get expensive very, very quickly. Taking multiple literature classes at one time left me with a pile of good books to read but a dent in my checking account. Having to buy 10 or 12 books at one time gave…

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