It’s no surprise that Jonathan Tropper’s This is Where I Leave You was made into a movie. Already, the book reads like just the kind of light, funny, heartfelt film you’d love to take your parents to over Thanksgiving, with a plot that involves a broken family finally coming together and mending old scars in the wake […]
Each month we ask a panel of our bloggers to suggest a book based on what they’re reading right now. Here’s what we think you should read this month! Joel: Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo and the Battle that Defined a Generation, by Blake J. Harris A must-read historical narrative for any ’90s kid who still bears […]
Fans of author Dennis Lehane know that his novels are smart, sharp page-turners. They’re thickly plotted, laced with violence, and frequently populated with working-class characters living lives of quiet desperation in and around Boston. And, as any movie buff can tell you, they are particularly well suited to great film adaptations (see: the brilliant, melancholy Mystic River […]