Sometimes a year feels fast, and sometimes a year feels slow. Sometimes a year feels like both! That’s been my year with Murakami. It feels like he’s always been a favorite author of mine, but when I look back, I hadn’t read a word of his until early this year. Now I average a Murakami book every couple of months. This particular book is different than the previous works I’ve read simply because it’s not a novel. It’s a collection of seven stories about, you […]
Meh
My book club chose Nine Women, One Dress (2016) by Jane L. Rosen as our latest book. It looked like a short and easy read, and I was hopeful that I would enjoy it. You can probably get a good guess at the plot from the title. There is one little, black dress of the season that significantly affects nine women’s lives. Some of the stories were entertaining, and Rosen did a good job of weaving the dress through her characters’ lives. I really enjoyed the beginning […]
Add Friday Black to your Black Friday shopping list!
[BINGO #2!] In this most holy month of guerrilla bargain shopping which begins with the Happy Holiday season of Black Fridays and Cyber Mondays, I couldn’t think of a better book to review than Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah. Both Roxanne Gay and George Saunders are singing the praises of this fresh young author, and everyone should be reading this outstanding collection of short stories. Adjei-Brenyah’s tales whipsaw between dystopian near futures of shopping madness in “Friday Black,” where stores just pile up the dead bodies so […]
Sea Section seems like a perfectly reasonable name for a beach house.
So I picked Calypso by David Sedaris as my “Brain Candy” square for CBR10 Bingo, which after reading it, seems like maybe not the best choice, because these short stories are a bit darker than usual. Sedaris’ sister Tiffany committed suicide in 2013, and this, his mother’s alcoholism, and a strange tumour growing on his side become the running topics in many of the stories in his first compilation in five years. Calypso is still hilariously funny, in exactly the ways you expect it to be. I’ve always had […]
Everything old is new again
For my “This Old Thing” square I finally bit the bullet and took this binding of two plays with me to jury duty to ensure I wouldn’t be tempted by more modern works, and shut my phone off. I needn’t have worried; it’s not like this would get mistaken for a written transcript of This Week Tonight or anything, but Moliere is not just remarkably readable, his views aren’t as antiquated as you might expect for someone writing in the mid 1600s. I picked these […]
Looking for a punch in the gut? Read this.
I have one word: DAMN! I noticed this cover. It was very odd. But lately people are trying to go with more “artistic” covers and things that “have not been done before.” Of course, by doing that, they have already done it, therefore it is not new. I still gave it a more careful look. Noticed it was Jack Gantos (SCORE!) and then saw the title. A Suicide Bomber Sits in the Library Well, that’s a bit of light reading isn’t it? I picked it […]
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