Books
Poetry month is not ‘pointless’
In honor of poetry month I have decided to take the time to review a book on poetry out this April. Now, I know what many of you may be thinking, “Wow, it’s poetry...
Debut novel doesn’t measure up
Tea Obreht’s book, “The Tiger’s Wife,” recently made its way to bookstore shelves with surprising fanfare for a novel written by a 25-year-old author without any other titles to her name.Obreht was lauded by...
Pecha Kucha night at Domy books an experience for everyone
Twenty slides, 20 seconds and a unique opportunity to see and be seen.Ten members of Houston’s creative community participated in the city’s third Pecha Kucha Night Thursday at Domy Books in the...
Passing the summer in the pages of a book
I didn’t read as many books as usual this summer. This is partly because two of the books on my list, “The Bible”, and “The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel”, are mammoth, but mostly because...
A look at an author’s attempt to find love without sex
British journalist Hephzibah Anderson’s memoir “Chastened: The Unexpected Story of My Year Without Sex,” follows her year-long experimentation with celibacy after she realizes that she has misunderstood the relationship between love and sex.Following the...