Jess’s Book Reviews

This page contains links to all of the book reviews I wrote for About.com and Run Spot Run. They’re listed in order from the newest to the oldest.

• A Window Opens, by Elisabeth Egan
• The Girl Who Slept with God, by Val Brelinski
• The Art of Memoir, by Mary Karr
• Saint Monkey, by Jacinda Townsend
• The Seven Good Years, by Etgar Keret
• Girl in the Moonlight, by Charles Dubow
• Etta and Otto and Russell and James, by Emma Hooper
• Expo 58, by Jonathan Coe
• Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America, by Linda Tirado
• Confidence, or the Appearance of Confidence: The Best of Believer Music Interviews, edited by Vendela Vida and Ross Simonini
• The Returned, by Jason Mott
• Gun Guys, by Dan Baum
• Americanah, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? by Jared Diamond
• Me, Who Dove into the Heart of the World, by Sabina Berman
• Some Assembly Required: A Journal of My Son’s First Son, by Anne Lamott with Sam Lamott
• How Eskimos Keep Their Babies Warm: Child-Raising Discoveries from Around the World (from Argentina to Tanzania and Everywhere in Between), by Mei-Ling Hopgood
• The Art of Fielding, by Chad Harbach
• Mr. Fox, by Helen Oyeyemi
• Microstyle: The Art of Writing Little, by Christopher Johnson
• Sex on the Moon: The Amazing Story Behind the Most Audacious Heist in History, by Ben Mezrich
• Embassytown, by China Miéville
• Blue Collar, White Collar, No Collar: Stories of Work, edited by Richard Ford
• A Widow’s Story, by Joyce Carol Oates
• When the Killing’s Done, by T.C. Boyle
• Storyteller: The Authorized Biography of Roald Dahl, by Donald Sturrock
• Give Me Your Heart, by Joyce Carol Oates
• At Home: A Short History of Private Life, by Bill Bryson
• Red Hook Road, by Ayelet Waldman
• The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, by David Mitchell
• The Best American Travel Writing 2009, edited by Simon Winchester
• The Year of the Flood, by Margaret Atwood
• Broccoli and Other Tales of Food and Love, by Laura Vapnyar
• Little Bee, by Chris Cleave
• The Ten-Year Nap, by Meg Wolitzer
• The Other Side of Desire: Four Journeys into the Far Realms ofhttp://www.gribblog.com/jesss-book-reviews/the-other-side-of-desire-by-daniel-bergner Lust and Longing, by Daniel Bergner
• World Without End, by Ken Follett
• The Best American Spiritual Writing 2008, edited by Philip Zaleski, with a foreword by Jimmy Carter
• State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America, edited by Matt Weiland and Sean Wilsey
• No Man’s Lands: One Man’s Odyssey Through The Odyssey, by Scott Huler
• Simplexity: Why Simple Things Become Complex (and How Complex Things Can Be Made Simple), by Jeffrey Kluger
• God Is Dead, by Ron Currie, Jr.
• Wolf Totem, by Jiang Rong
• Ultimate Blogs: Masterworks from the Wild Web, by Sarah Boxer
• John: A Novel, by Niall Williams
• The Pillars of the Earth, by Ken Follett