Character Relationships in A Visit from the Goon Squad

So, you want to read Jennifer Egan’s new book The Candy House, but it’s been years since you read A Visit from the Goon Squad and there’s a lot you don’t remember. Or A Visit from the Goon Squad never interested you, but The Candy House does and you’re wondering what background you might be… Continue reading Character Relationships in A Visit from the Goon Squad

Should You Read The Candy House by Jennifer Egan?

“‘I have this craving,’ Bix said as he stood beside the bed stretching out his shoulders and spine, a nightly ritual before lying down. ‘Just to talk.’ “Lizzie met his eyes over the dark curls of Gregory, their youngest, who was suckling at her breast. ‘Listening,’ she murmured.” – Opening of The Candy House Like… Continue reading Should You Read The Candy House by Jennifer Egan?

Should You Read A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan?

“It began the usual way, in the bathroom of the Lassimo Hotel. Sasha was adjusting her yellow eye shadow in the mirror when she noticed a bag on the floor beside the sink that must have belonged to the woman whose peeing she could faintly hear through the vaultlike door of a toilet stall. Inside… Continue reading Should You Read A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan?

Should You Read Thank You, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse?

“I was a shade perturbed. Nothing to signify, really, but still just a spot concerned. As I sat in the old flat, idly touching the strings of my banjolele, an instrument to which I had become greatly addicted of late, you couldn’t have said that the brow was actually furrowed, and yet, on the other… Continue reading Should You Read Thank You, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse?