Book 16

Title: Fearless Fourteen
Author: Janet Evanovich
Pages: 310
Setting: Trenton, NJ

Book 15

Title: McSweeney's Quarterly Concern Issue #30
Author: Various
Pages: 197

I would recommend this book. All McSweeney's are great but I think this is the best one that has been put out in a few years. I liked every story.

Favorite Stories: Pfaff II by Bill Cotter, Madness by Matei Visniec and Foothill Boulevard by Catherine Bussinger

Favorite Character: Carroll Silver in Pinecone by Michael Cera

Best First Line: "In 1991, I went to jail for canning goods without a license." The Beginning of a Plan by Shelley Oria

Favorite Quotes: "There was something unnerving about the place, like you'd recognized it from a dream." Diamond Aces by Carson Mell
"He was thinner than when I'd last seen him, and the orbits of his eyes were dark, kind of buttholish with exhaustion." Retreat by Wells Tower

Misc: Michael Cera, one of my favorite actors, had a story in this issue and it was awesome. He is in several of my favorite movies (Superbad, Juno, Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist) and the vastly underrated TV show Arrested Development. I hope he starts writing more because it seems he has a talent for it.

Book 14

Title: Digging to America
Author: Anne Tyler
Pages: 277
Setting: Maryland

Synopsis: The story of an American family and an Iranian family both raising children they adopted from Korea.

Favorite quote: "September brought its smell of dry leaves that could so easily be mistaken for the smell of freshly sharpened pencils..."

Most irritating quote: "Brad worried vaccinations were dangerous." I hate it when people would rather leave their kid open to polio or the measles because of the chance of some mild side effects.

Most irritating part: One of the main character's names is Bitsy.

I would not recommend this book. I feel like nothing really happened in it. There was no climax to it. I could not get into the characters lives and did not care what happened to them. The ending was also a severe disappointment.