I can never decide whether Ngaio Marsh’s Died in the Wool (1945) has one of the silliest or best detective fiction titles I have ever seen, and there are a lot of bad ones out there (ahem, Charlaine Harris). The story seems to be constructed around the pun; the dead body of a lady sheep farmer and member of parliament in New Zealand is found rather mashed up in…a pack of wool. It’s like calling a book Bloody Mary and having the main character be […]
Ode to the Mundane
The Mezzanine is 100 pages of highly articulate stream-of-consciousness: the thoughts of our narrator as he takes a ride up the escalator during his lunch break to his office on the mezzanine. That’s it; that’s the plot. But that’s, of course, not the point: the point, or one of them, is following ordinary trains of thought to their conclusions in detail-oriented and precise prose, following the trail of a curious and engaged mind as it explores the minutiae of everyday (modern, office) life. You know […]
There’s no need to fear! Underdog is here!
This was my second foray into the world of Malcolm Gladwell during the Cannonball and it’s not the last. I really enjoy his books and the way he reads them. Gladwell performs his own narration which I believe improves the quality of an audio book. Gladwell is a smooth, easy reader with an inviting tone. David and Goliath discusses how there may be inherent advantages in perceived disadvantages. Right away, the conclusions are loose and not definitive in anyway but I do not think hat […]
When a barnacle covered bag washes ashore on a small island in British Columbia, Ruth is immediately drawn into the narrative of Nao, a 16-year-old from an ocean away in Tokyo, Japan. Nao lived with her parents in California, where Silicon Valley and the California sun held nothing but hope and happiness for the Japanese family. But her father’s job loss returned Nao’s family to Japan, where she went from happy well-adjusted teenager, to a bullied outcast. Escaping the constant pinching, stalking, and even fake […]
's CBR6 Review No:19 ·
Genres: Uncategorized ·
Tags: A Tale For The Time Being, Fiction, genericwhitegirl, Ruth Ozeki ·
Kid Stuff (Reviews #1-3)
I’m never sure if anyone reads my reviews here or not, but I figure, just in case someone does, I’m sorry that I’ve been so long without posting this year (something about teaching in 2014 sucked up all my energies) I thought I’d kick off with some of my first books from the year–a collection of picture books that ended up in a lot of conversations around the Caldecott Medal–my full break down and ballot can be read at my personal blog. With that, here […]
A realistic, vivid and quirkily illustrated coming-of-age comic about life at art-school and the uncertainty that goes along with it.
“What do you want to be in ten years?” This is the question posed by a tutor in Jamie Coe’s Art Schooled. This was also one of the first questions posed to my Animation class in one of the first weeks of my degree at a small art school in Surrey. And like my illustrated compatriots, my classmates and I all wildly overestimated what we’d be up to. My (soon to be) housemate was going to write the English Family Guy. Another friend was going […]
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