From what I have seen so far, Under the Visible Life has not been getting the attention it deserves. Thanks to Susan at A Life in Books, I bumped it up my list, read it over the Holidays, and loved every minute of it. Both Susan and Naomi (The Writes of Woman) included it on … Continue reading Under the Visible Life by Kim Echlin
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Novellas in November 2016
Novellas in November is hosted by Laura at Reading in Bed. The Peculiar Life of a Lonely Postman by Denis Thériault, translated by Liedewy Hawke This book could just as easily be called The Lonely Life of a Peculiar Postman. Either way, it was the perfect escape from the election results; I curled up by … Continue reading Novellas in November 2016
Guy by Jowita Bydlowska
About Guy: Easy on the eyes.. And knows it. Eats well. Works out every morning. Rich and successful. Owns a house on the beach. The beach that he likes to walk his dog on, and watch women look at him. He rates these women on a scale of 1 to 10. His prefers 3s, 4s … Continue reading Guy by Jowita Bydlowska
All the Things We Leave Behind by Riel Nason
Do you ever wonder what happens to all the deer and moose that get hit on the highway? There is a boneyard deep in the woods. The deer and moose could show you where. They know the place where the trees stop and the carcasses begin. All the Things We Leave Behind begins with Violet and … Continue reading All the Things We Leave Behind by Riel Nason
Stranger by David Bergen
The only books by David Bergen that I have read up to this point have been The Age of Hope and The Case of Lena S.. Both were good, but neither one blew me away. So I was surprised when, upon reading the first few pages of Stranger, I was sucked right in. With its … Continue reading Stranger by David Bergen
Bad Things Happen by Kris Bertin
After a moment, all he managed to say was bad things happen. It meant nothing to me, but he seemed to be satisfied with it, like that explained everything. Last month, I read two short story collections from the Giller Prize longlist. I enjoyed both of them, but also mentioned that story collections aren't usually … Continue reading Bad Things Happen by Kris Bertin
Shadow Giller: Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien
Do Not Say We Have Nothing is all over the internet right now, perhaps due to its spot as a finalist for the Man Booker Prize, and more recently it has become the 2016 winner of the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction. Because of all the already-existing fabulous reviews that abound I'm going to try … Continue reading Shadow Giller: Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien
Shadow Giller: 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl by Mona Awad
There was always that shadowy twin, thin when I was fat, fat when I was thin, myself in silvery negative, with dark teeth and shining white pupils glowing in that black sunlight of another world. --Margaret Atwood What Mona Awad does so well in this book is to put us inside the head of a woman with … Continue reading Shadow Giller: 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl by Mona Awad
Shadow Giller: Yiddish For Pirates by Gary Barwin
Gary Barwin's imagination knocked my socks off. History and adventure come together in this remarkable tale full of word play and wit, all told by a 500-year-old Yiddish-speaking parrot. So, you ask, how did this shell-less cheder-bocher - schoolboy - drawn from the waters of Ashkenaz find himself on the Spanish Main, the blade of … Continue reading Shadow Giller: Yiddish For Pirates by Gary Barwin
Shadow Giller: The Best Kind of People by Zoe Whittall
[Rape Culture's] most devilish trick is to make the average non-criminal person identify with the person accused, instead of the person reporting the crime... … Continue reading Shadow Giller: The Best Kind of People by Zoe Whittall
Consumed by Ink 