The Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky (27 September — 1 October)
How did I manage not to read this book any time in the last ten years? Jeez, self. Get with it. This is another book without a discernible plot, and another book without a discernible plot that I liked. Something is wrong with me. I need to go read some Grisham or Patterson or something … Read more
Ella Minnow Pea, by Mark Dunn (13 February)
This is a “progressively lipogrammatic epistolary novel,” or, in other words, a book written in letters (that you’d send in the mail) that has to be careful of its words as certain letters (of the alphabet) are removed from the book one by one. The premise is that there is an island called Nollop that … Read more
