Doug Bruns
Doug Bruns lives in Portland, Maine, where he spends his time reading, writing, walking his dog Maggie and thinking about how to live a good and proper and authentic life. When he’s done with that he comes home and cooks for his bride of plus thirty years. His web site is The House I Live In.
Doug has reviewed the following for MostlyFiction.com:
2011 (Top Picks)
- Blue Nights by Joan Didion (11-10-11)
- The Great Leader by Jim Harrison (10-30-11)
- Disaster Was My God: A Novel of the Outlaw Life of Arthur Rimbaud by Bruce Duffy (10-13-11)
- The Surf Guru by Doug Dorst (9-23-11)
- The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road by Paul Theroux (8-12-11)
- Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace by David Lipsky (7-19-11)
- The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore by Benjamin Hale (6-26-11)
- Tinkers by Paul Harding (5-27-11)
- The Pale King by David Foster Wallace (5-11-11)
- Seeds: One Man’s Serendipitous Journey to Find the Trees That Inspired Famous American Writers from Faulkner to Kerouac, Welty to Wharton by Richard Horan (4-20-11)
- Portraits of a Marriage by Sándor Márai (2-22-11)
- A Widow’s Story by Joyce Carol Oates (2-15-11)
- Just Kids by Patti Smith (1-3-11)
2010 (Top Picks)
- Settled into the Wild by Susan Hand Shetterly (11-14-10)
- How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts to Answer It by Sarah Bakewell (10-20-10)
- Fame: A Novel in Nine Episodes by Daniel Kehlmann (09-14-10)
- How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu (09-08-10)
- The Wilderness by Samantha Harvey (07-18-10)
- Zen and Now: On the Trail of Robert Pirsig and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Mark Richardson (06-19-10)
- Director’s Cut by Arthur Japin (06-08-10)
- Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace (05-12-10)
- The Last Station by Jay Parini (04-26-10)
- What Becomes by A.L. Kennedy (04-7-10)
- Secrets of Eden by Chris Bohjalian (03-15-10)
- The Infinities by John Banville (02-28-10)
- The Truth About Love by Josephine Hart (02-21-10)
- The Interrogative Mood by Powell Padgett (01-27-10)
- Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (01-19-10)
- Johnny Future by Steve Abee (01-13-10)
- Noah’s Compass by Anne Tyler (01-05-10)
2009 (Top Picks)
- Manhood for Amateurs by Michael Chabon (12-20-09)
- The Convalescent by Jessica Anthony (12-12-09)
- After the Fire, A Still Small Voice by Evie Wyld (11-27-09)
- Inherit Vice by Thomas Pynchon (11-20-09)
- Supreme Courtship by Christopher Buckley (11-09-09)
- Last Night in Twisted River by John Irving (10-26-09)
- The Boy Next Door by Irene Sabatini (10-11-09)
- This is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life by David Foster Wallace (10-4-09)
- Under This Unbroken Sky by Shandi Mitchell (9-11-09)
- Black Water Rising by Attica Locke (9-4-09)
- An Underachiever’s Diary by Benjamin Anastas (8-30-09)
- Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi by Geoff Dyer (8-22-09)
- Heroic Measures by Jill Ciment (8-17-09)
- Self’s Murder by Bernhard Schlink (8-11-09)
- Snakeskin Road by James Braziel (7-28-09)
- Shadow Country by Peter Matthiessen (7-20-09)
- 2666 by Roberto Bolano (7-3-09)
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