The Unexpected Perks of Homeownership
I’m a relatively recent homeowner. I moved into my four-bedroom suburban ranch-layout a little under two years ago, and the surprises never cease. There’ve been random leaks and minor repairs. There...
View ArticleBlack Hole: Burns and Adolescent Grotesquerie
There’s such a thing as “cold” reading in which I’ll delve into a book with zero background knowledge about author or subject matter. Sometimes such a savoy into uncharted waters proves faulted by a...
View ArticleSaturday Suggestion: Black Swan Green
David Mitchell’s Black Swan Green is the story of 13 year old budding-poet-in-hiding Jason Taylor, and the struggles he undergoes between 1982-1983. The book is set in the English countryside and...
View ArticleLast Call for Submissions!
It’s the final day for the first ever Book Guy Reviews Guest Post Competition! Polish up those submissions and send them in to bookguysubmissions@gmail.com. Here’s a reminder of the rules and...
View ArticleSolitary Viewing
I like to go to the movies by myself. It started in high school after searching for an hour or so for someone to go and see a movie I was intrigued by. I decided why not? and just went myself. What...
View ArticleMoonlight and Cadillacs: Our First Guest Post Winner!
Book Guy Reviews welcomes its first ever guest post contest winner, Sara O’Brien! Sara OBrien is a poet located somewhere mid-Atlantic, living in both London and Massachusetts. She writes between homes...
View ArticleJohn Waters’ Role Models
In this unique, baffling, and at times very (predictably) unsettling collection of essays, the Pope of Trash and the Prince of Puke illustrates his creative muses and “Role Models.” I’m a relative...
View ArticleSaturday Suggestion: House of Leaves
Mark D. Danielewski’s labyrinthian book House of Leaves is a terrifying, strikingly original multi-layered horror story. It’s a book about a book about a movie. So yeah, wrap your head around that for...
View ArticleDay 1: Awaiting Departure
This is the first of what will become a sort of travel log of my time spent in Turkey. Book Guy Reviews will be taking a relative hiatus from the standard “musings and reviews” and transition for the...
View ArticleDay 2: Selçuk and Ephesus
I’ve spent a full 24 hours in travel. Denver to Detroit, Detroit to Paris, Paris to Istanbul, Istanbul to Izmir, all of which followed by a train ride where the right gust of wind would fill the train...
View ArticleThe Turkey Chronicle: Izmir
There are those moments where surroundings become so foreign and tumultuous that the only way to maintain sanity is to simply let the world wash over you. Although, ocean waves are often deceptive....
View ArticleThe Turkey Chronicle: Pamukkale
After three lovely days in coastal Selçuk via Izmir, we took a three hour bus ride inland toward central Turkey and Capadoccia to visit Pamukkale–one of the most unique geological areas I’ve had the...
View ArticleThe Turkey Chronicle: Göreme and Cappadocia
After a surprisingly easy overnight bus from Denizli (Pamukkale) through interior Turkey to Göreme, we arrived in Cappadocia. Cresting over hillsides and through valleys into the early morning cloud...
View ArticleThe Turkey Chronicle: Istanbul (Taksim)
After discussing the matter of where to stay in a city as historically broad and culturally essential as Istanbul with friends and family members, coworkers and acquaintances, we decided to stay in...
View ArticleThe Stand: A Post-Apocalyptic Wonderland
The long-standing staple of science/post-apocalyptic fiction–Stephen King’s The Stand is an unrivaled masterpiece of the genre. A super-flu hits the United States killing off 99.4% of the world’s...
View ArticleThe Turkey Chronicle: Istanbul (Beykoz)
Our viewLife is the perpetual search for authenticity. It’s a never-ending quest for that which is real, that which stands alone as entirely authentic and genuine. I don’t want the simulacrum of...
View ArticleThe Turkey Chronicle: Sultanahmet and the End
We’ve made it. I’ve been to the Turkish interior, gotten lost in the bazaar, had tea (and wonderful conversations) with complete strangers who understood little/no English, eaten like a local–and I...
View ArticleSummer of Night: A Lament
I’m a sucker for horror in the summer. The warm nights, the soft glow of television, the popcorn grease clinging to extended fingertips as the bedroom closet door on the screen slowly reveals some...
View ArticleSaturday Suggestion: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Safran Foer’s multi-facted prose is unlike anything else out there (except maybe House of Leaves—but that’s a different story altogether). Utilizing an array of textual devices ranging from the...
View ArticleSummer Reading: My Ultimate Top Five
It’s time to open up those windows and breathe in the glorious scent of freshly cut grass. It’s summer, and with the sweltering heat comes leisure time galore (if you’re me, and have summers off), and...
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