Benjamin Roesch

Category: Book Reviews

  • Post #157: Help Me Celebrate R.D. Stevens’ The Freeze

    One of the best parts of being an author out in the world is the chance to meet and support fellow authors. I met R.D. Stevens in the summer of 2022. We connected as people do–on Instagram. We read and reviewed each other’s debut novels, which both came out last…

  • Post #141: In Light of Recent Events

    One of the best things about being friends with other writers is celebrating their successes, and I’m so here to celebrate. My good friend Amy Klinger recently published her debut novel In Light of Recent Events, and it’s such a likable, lovable book. I can’t wait for you to read…

  • Post #117: One Man Book Club, Part Three (Herman Koch’s “The Dinner”)

    I know, I know. You’ve been salivating for the next installment of our series One Man Book Club (for the un-initiated, prior to now we’ve discussed Pride and Prejudice and The Family Fang). Lucky for you, so has our beloved intern here at The Almost Right Words, Zane Kai, who…

  • Post #104: One Man Book Club: The Family Fang

    At the insistent urges and blasting emotional hornpipe of my beloved, but total pain in the ass, intern, Zane Kai, we’re doing another round of One Man Book Club. Zane felt that our first foray into the scene with our multi-part take on Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice was a…

  • Post #91: One Man Book Club (Pride and Prejudice), Concluded

    Sincere apologies for taking so long to conclude this inaugural edition of One Man Book Club, Pride and Prejudice. If you’ve been waiting and grown tired of waiting, blame me, not my intern Zane Kai. Zane has been all over me like bubbles on beer to talk about the last…

  • Post #85: One Man Book Club, Continued

    My intern, Zane Kai, has been anxious to talk to me some more about Pride and Prejudice, which, as you know, I’m reading as an endeavor I’m describing as a One Man Book Club. In case you’ve forgotten, I’m reading P&P because it just celebrated the 200th anniversary of its…

  • Post #82: One Man Book Club

    So, as you know, I’m reading Pride and Prejudice as a sort of one-man-book-club, and as a way to respond to the first 70 pages, which is all I’ve had time to get through so far, I thought it best to have my intern, Mr. Zane Kai, interview me about…

  • Post #78: New Acquisitions

    I need more books in my house like I need a hole in the head, but somehow or another I found my way to the bookstore yesterday and picked up a couple new acquisitions. There’s just nothing like a new book, is there? The smell. The crisp, unbroken spine. The…

  • Post #65: Lifting the Veil

    I am a huge fan of Jay-Z.  I don’t listen to a ton of hip-hop, but what I do listen to (mostly Tribe Called Quest, Jurassic 5, The Roots), I listen to fervently, and the Jigga is right at the top of my list.  I can’t get enough of his…

  • Post #48: Review Static

    The question up for debate today is: Can you read or hear strong opinions (positive or negative) about a piece of art without your own judgments and ideas being warped and affected?  A corollary question is: does the volume and passion of said opinions have a relationship to said (potential)…