Goodreads finally went public hours ago with the results of their Independent Book Blogger Awards. Today we’re taking a moment to repeat their effort by highlighting the finalists and the winner in each category. Why? Because if you’re into books these really are the blogs you should be reading. Don’t stop reading this one in favor of reading these other ones though. Instead add them to the end of your reading list.
Another slow moving week has come to close. Perhaps for us it just felt really slow because we endured another horrible episode of AMC’s The Killing and slowly fought through the boredom brought on by reading Painter of Silence (shameless self-linking there, but hey we earned it.) Yeah it wasn’t the best of weeks for us by any stretch. We don’t say this often, but we’re ooking forward to Monday. It can’t come soon enough.
Daniel Lichtmann’s wife is dead. So is Benjamin Wind, the artist whose career Daniel built his reputation as an art critic on. The two have both plunged out the window of a high-rise to meet the all too eager pavement waiting far below to swallow their existence and spit out their empty shells. That much is crystal clear. But was this a murder? A murder suicide? A suicide pact between secret lovers?