#anthony doer

Just as the title says, here's a list/rating of my favourite to least favourite Pulitzer Prize winning books (of those I have read).

Note: I am rating these books solely on an emotional scale based on how strongly I connected with each book.

#1. The Goldfinch, by Donna Tartt (one of my favourite books OF ALL TIME)

#2. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, by Michael Chabon

#3. All the Light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doer

#4. The Colour Purple, by Alice Walker

#5. To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee

#6. Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides

#7. The Road, by Cormac McCarthy

#8. The Orphan Master’s Son, by Adam Johnson

 One of my New School Year Resolutions is to read as many Pulitzers between this fall and the next as possible (an idea spawned pretty much out of absolute boredom and need for a pet-project). It’ll be interesting to see how this list changes throughout the next 12 months, and when I’m finally finished I’ll create a much more detailed one describing what I do/don’t like about each book! 

My newest book review is up All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doer. This is a book that I come back to when I need to remember what good writing looks like. Want to know more? Click the link below.

I would rate this book 5/5.  Does it have its faults, yes, but it is one of my favorite books and I would feel rating it anything less would be a disservice to the book. 

Let me get a few things out of the way.  First, I love historical fiction, especially historical fiction that feels real and lets you live alongside the characters, no matter how tragic their stories.  Second, I have always…

NaNoWriMo tip: Feature your protagonist’s worst fear.

Reading fiction makes us scared. And I’m not talking about only horror or thrillers. If a reader isn’t afraid about what awaits the central characters, and if the main characters aren’t vulnerable, then the story won’t work properly and readers won’t lose sleep to discover if the character survives.

In Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot Seereaders follow a  blind French girl, Marie-Laure,…

This week, check out book clubs, an acronym competition, geek yoga, and more!

Happy Leap Day! Welcome to This Week in Geek, your guide to events of interest to the Minnesota geek community for the week of Monday, February 29th through Sunday, March 6th. Girly Book Club: All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doer What: Meet-Up, Books When: Monday, February 29th at 6:45 p.m. Where: Kieran’s Irish Pub The Minneapolis chapter of the Girly Book Club is hosting a meet-up at…

It’s such a cop out of a post, I know, but of the many that are currently in draft form, I’m not quite ready to push any of them out into the world *quite* yet. Instead, here’s a recap as to what’s on my reading list:

Currently reading:

Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Josh Foer (yuppers, he’s related to *that* Jonathan Foer) – still hasn’t improved my…