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Calipso by David Sedaris

February 25, 2019 by lumenatrix Leave a Comment

David Sedaris is one of my favorite authors and this book was just the thing I needed after the more serious books I’ve read recently. If you know Sedaris’s work then you kind of know what to expect. It’s memoir in short story format. This collection focuses mostly around the beach house he and his partner Hugh purchase on the Carolina coast in the same town his family used to take summer vacations. This gives a lose through line to the book, which mostly […]

Prince Sebastian would like to introduce you to himself, Lady Crystallia

The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang

February 25, 2019 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

The Prince and the Dressmaker most likely was pretty cutting-edge when it came out last year. We were started to talk about sexual identity and gender fluidness and the issues that come from that. Using the graphic novel format also is a bit different. But this publishers imprint seems to be the one to go to for cutting-edge stories in this usually more approachable format. However, a year later, having a young man dress in woman’s clothing as sometimes he feels male and sometimes female, […]

When we came to the end, we loved it

Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris

February 24, 2019 by KimMiE" Leave a Comment

I picked up this novel because I enjoyed Joshua Ferris’s To Rise Again at a Decent Hour, though, as my review states, I was at a loss to explain exactly why I liked it. Ferris’s sense of humor appealed to me, though, and I like authors who don’t claim to have all the answers. Then We Came to the End is his first novel, and it is certainly a curiosity. Written in first-person plural point of view, the narrators’ “we” refers to the employees of an […]

Wash the glasses with your own water to save your master’s salt.

Directions to Servants by Jonathan Swift

February 23, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

This is a curious, satirical set of essays and musings written by Jonathan Swift in 1745, of Jonathan Swift fame. Here’s an odd wording from the author’s bio: “Written in the author’s final years of sanity…” And on that charming note! So what the book looks like, and this depends largely on your edition, is a few longish pieces and several smallish ones. The result comes across as a kind of writing that loses steam over time, and the short pieces do not tend to […]

Donkey, where are you????????

The Donkey Egg by Janet Stevens

February 22, 2019 by BlackRaven 4 Comments

I read the description of The Donkey Egg a few days before reading the book. It sounded horrible, even if it was by the fantastic author Janet Stevens book (Tops and Bottoms). I figured if I found the book, I was going to read it, but was not going to go out of my way to look for it. However, when I found it, I was pleasantly surprised. I do not know why I liked the story. The fact that Fox tricks Bear is just […]

Here a skull, there a skull, everywhere a skull-skull….

SKULLS! by Blair Thornburgh

February 21, 2019 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

SKULLS! Yes, you have one. Yes, I have one. Yes, your dog has one. Yes, even a pirate has one! Blair Thornburgh’s narrator takes you through the world of skulls in a very scientific but simplistic and story formatted, way. Follow the story along as she tells you all the great things skulls can do for you and things about skulls. The afterwards has interesting facts about skulls that do not lend themselves easily to the story itself. This would be a good book to […]

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