foe – Cannonball Read 17

If this book had a face, I would punch it

Foe by Iain Reid

June 23, 2019 by Claire Badger Leave a Comment

I have got to stop believing the hype around anyone declared Canada’s next big author. I just have to stop doing that for like, my mental health. CanLit is so desperate to have a big thing like Atwood again that they will throw that title around like a stick for a dog, and I, ever the faithful hound, will chase after it. But it’s a stick, not a rabbit, and a stick is ultimately wooden, predictable and boring; like this fucking book. Where do I […]

It seemed to me that all things were possible on the island, all tyrannies and cruelties, though in small

Foe by J.M. Coetzee

Expedition to the Baobab Trees by Wilma Stockenstrom

June 11, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Foe – 4/5 Stars Foe is J.M. Coetzee’s 1986 retelling of Daniel Dafoe’s Robinson Crusoe. In this version, we get the story through Mary Barton, another shipwreck survivor who finds herself in the presence of Friday and Crusoe on their island. She lives there for years in a kind of chaste triple marriage up until Crusoe’s death. She and Friday are later rescued and she brings him to England to live. She takes him to London and there meets Daniel Foe who she recounts their […]

Episode 1-36: Ferris Bueller’s Synthesizer

September 28, 2018 by prisco Leave a Comment

https://killingmykindle.com/2018/09/29/episode-1-36-ferris-buellers-synthesizer/ Wherein I review: 136. Johannes Cabal the Detective (Johannes Cabal #2) by Jonathan L. Howard 137. Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin #1) by Patrick O’Brian 138. The Cold Commands (A Land Fit for Heroes #2) by Richard K. Morgan 139. The Burning Page (Invisible Library #3) by Genevieve Cogman 140. The Fear Institute (Johannes Cabal #3) by Jonathan L. Howard 141. The Guilty Dead (Monkeewrench #9) by P.J. Tracy 142. Foe by Iain Reid After chunking a zero in the Yahtzee column last […]

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