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Reading List: Girls, Abducted

In recent years, there’s been a bumper crop of books — fiction and nonfiction — about young women being held against their will. Because I am a terrible person, I developed an unhealthy interest in the subject and ended up reading quite a few of these books, so I’m now qualified to present a list of some of the most riveting titles for anyone who shares my creepy fascination. Plus, we’ll look at a couple of forthcoming additions slated for 2015 and beyond. My Story Author: Elizabeth Smart I’m now old enough to play the “Where was I when…” game, [...]

2016-12-31T17:58:49-07:00January 3rd, 2014|Tags: , , , , , |

Pretty Good Number One: An American Family Eats Tokyo

A Pretty Good Tour of Tokyo Author: Matthew Amster-Burton In theory, I want to go to Japan. It’s always seemed like an exotic and interesting destination, and I have a personal connection: my mom is Japanese and was born there. But the double linguistic whammy of a foreign language and a foreign alphabet, plus a national diet of all the scariest, most unidentifiable brown stringy things in my grandma’s fridge, was… intimidating, to say the least. If nothing else, I owe food writer and fellow Seattleite Matthew Amster-Burton a great debt for making Japan sound navigable, friendly, and downright tasty [...]

2016-12-31T17:55:50-07:00October 29th, 2013|Tags: , , , , , , , |

Returned, The

 Send It Back Author: Jason Mott I’m seriously considering a new policy of avoiding all buzzed-about books: they never live up to the hype, and more often than not, I feel like I didn’t even read the same book as the one everyone else is raving about. My streak continued with Jason Mott’s debut novel The Returned, where an intriguing premise — dead people start randomly showing up, apparently alive again, all over the planet — fizzled out into a heavy-handed, strangely unaffecting morality play. Set in the present, the story begins as Harold and Lucille Hargrave open their door [...]

2016-12-31T17:55:52-07:00October 16th, 2013|Tags: , , , |
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