Nic Dafis rated Teaching a Stone to Talk: 5 stars
Teaching a Stone to Talk by Annie Dillard
The Pulitzer Prize-winning writer shares her sharply observed, keenly felt encounters with the natural world--in landscapes of Eastern woods and …
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Nic Dafis rated Living by Fiction: 4 stars
Living by Fiction by Annie Dillard
Living by Fiction is written for--and dedicated to--people who love literature. Dealing with writers such as Nabokov, Barth, Coover, Pynchon, …
Nic Dafis rated The year of reading dangerously: 5 stars
The year of reading dangerously by Andy Miller
"An editor and writer's vivaciously entertaining, and often moving, chronicle of his year-long adventure with fifty great books (and two …
Lila by Marilynne Robinson (Gilead, #3)
Marilynne Robinson, one of the greatest novelists of our time, returns to the town of Gilead in an unforgettable story …
Nic Dafis rated Journal of a Disappointed Man: 5 stars
Nic Dafis rated Huck Out West: 5 stars
Robert Coover: Huck Out West (2018, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.)
Huck Out West by Robert Coover
In Robert Coover's Huck Out West, also "wrote by Huck," the boys escape "sivilization" and "light out for the Territory, …
Home by Marilynne Robinson (Gilead, #2)
Hundreds of thousands were enthralled by the luminous voice of John Ames in Gilead, Marilynne Robinson’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel. …
Nic Dafis rated Question of Upbringing: 4 stars
Nic Dafis rated Discovering Scarfolk: 3 stars
Nic Dafis rated The Dark Philosophers (Library of Wales): 5 stars
Nic Dafis rated Border Country: 5 stars
Border Country by Williams, Raymond.
Border Country is a novel by Raymond Williams. The book was re-published in December 2005 as one of the first …
Nic Dafis rated Manhattan Beach: 5 stars
Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan
"Manhattan Beach opens in Brooklyn during the Great Depression. Anna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old, accompanies her father to the …
Nic Dafis rated A year with the ladies of Llangollen: 4 stars
Island by Aldous Huxley
In Island, his last novel, Huxley transports us to a Pacific island where, for 120 years, an ideal society has …
Platform by Michel Houellebecq
"Michel Renault is a human void. Following the death of the father he barely knew, he endures his civil service …