Books I read in June: Cleaning Up New York — Bob Rosenthal (1976) Referred to as a cult classic. I don’t get it. You expect a cleaning memoir to have good stories about clients and the occasional cleaning tip. This one has both but doesn’t manage to make either of them interesting. * I just don’t …
Category Archives: reviews
The Books of May
Reviews and musings on: xo Orpheus, Best American Essays 2014, A Manual for Cleaning Women, On the Move, Murder on the Orient Express, and all of Harry Potter
The Books of April
Reviews of: Mirror, Mirror; Fairy Tale Review, Mr. and Mrs. Dog, A Plague of Doves, Flash Non-Fiction, Zero History, Hat Full of Sky, and some Harry Potter.
The Books of March
Reviews of McCourt’s Angela’s Ashes, Donaldson’s Culture Clash, Brown’s The Gifts of Imperfection, and Valente’s The Orphan’s Tales.
The Books of February
The books of February: The Japanese Lover, a Sedaris, Partly Cloudy Patriots, Nothing in Reserve, Pulphead, Loitering, and Radiance. I Was Promised There’s be Cake.