I Read Therefore I Am
Charles Kingsley said Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book! I tend to agree with him. And who am I? I’m Carla. I was born smack dab in the middle of Manhattan. I have been an avid reader since the second grade when my best friend introduced me to The Baby-Sitters Club. This blog is my way of putting that passion to good use. By way of credentials all I have to brag about is a Bachelor’s degree in Creative Writing and a hopeless addiction to writing poetry. Sometimes nice editors at awesome literary magazines even publish my work. While I believe I have fairly wide ranging tastes in literature there’s a firm possibility that I’m the only person who thinks that, so if you would like to recommend a book for review, go right ahead. I’m always looking for something new to read.
walter kirn said,
March 29, 2007 at 11:26 pm
i just wanted to write and thank you for your kind and perceptive review of the unbinding. it made my day to come across it on the web. yours, walter kirn
Ellen Ruppel Shell said,
April 7, 2007 at 6:13 pm
web surfing, I stumbled upon your “best book of the year” nomination for The Hungry Gene–how very kind!
Yours,
Ellen Ruppel Shell
tableclothtips said,
April 19, 2007 at 10:56 am
I am also an avid reader and find this blog great- you certainly have a very wide range! Have you read any South African books?
iread said,
April 24, 2007 at 9:24 pm
Mr. Kirn,
I am really glad my post was able to make your day. Yours pretty much made my month.
alicia said,
December 7, 2007 at 2:08 pm
Hi
I’d like to credit you– I’m a student at IAIA and I read your review of Natasha’s book. I can’t find your info listed… would you kindly email me and I can have a name source for your page:
http://iread.wordpress.com/2007/10/11/native-guard-by-natasha-trethewey/
Also I know this poet so I’ll send her your words. Thanks for your love of literature.
Alicia
Jennifer said,
October 27, 2009 at 7:00 pm
Hello!
I’m writing you (full disclosure) as author Tom Gammarino’s publicist at Chin Music Press. I wanted to thank you for your review of his debut novel, “Big in Japan: A Ghost Story.” We’re so excited that early copies of the book are finding appreciative readers – thank goodness for LibraryThing.
Have you seen the book’s website: http://chinmusicpress.com/biginjapan.html
I wanted to ask if you would be willing to post your review (or an abbreviated version of it) as an amazon.com review. We’re preparing for the 1 November release of this book, and it would be great to have a few positive reviews up there ahead of the pub date.
Thanks again for reading “Big in Japan.” Not sure where you’re located, but Tom will be giving readings in Seattle, Vancouver BC, Philadelphia and New York this winter. Maybe we’ll see you there!
Cheers and thanks,
Jennifer
iread said,
October 31, 2009 at 5:53 pm
Hi Jennifer,
I’d be happy to post an abbreviated version of my review on Amazon. The more readers a good book can get, the better. If I hadn’t been pressed for time (I wanted to make sure I posted my review before Nov. 1st), I probably would have written ten pages of pure literary criticism. Big in Japan is so thematically rich I spent days thinking about how language, emptiness, purity, and contamination all intersect in the novel. I love books that give me something to chew on.
I’m actually in NYC, and I see Tom will be reading at KGB Bar in December. You can bet I will be there with bells and whistles on.
Cheers,
Carla