We’ve had THE COLOR PURPLE, THE BLUEST EYE, and PUSH. Now a slice of the underbelly of inadequate families for… Read more FIGHTING WORDS by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Category: My Reviews
THE RAMPART TRILOGY BOOK 1:
THE BOOK OF KOLI by M. R. Carey I am impressed no end by the world-building in this novel. I… Read more THE RAMPART TRILOGY BOOK 1:
NEIL GAIMAN’S THE GRAVEYARD BOOK (2008) AND RUDYARD KIPLING’S THE JUNGLE BOOK (1894)
A BORROWED PLOT. Apart from similar titles, the links between these two wonderful novels are many, including the detailed descriptions… Read more NEIL GAIMAN’S THE GRAVEYARD BOOK (2008) AND RUDYARD KIPLING’S THE JUNGLE BOOK (1894)
SALLY ROONEY’S NORMAL PEOPLE
NORMAL PEOPLE (Faber and Faber 2018) While Sally Rooney’s novel is in no way derivative, she appears to have fashioned… Read more SALLY ROONEY’S NORMAL PEOPLE
NOVACENE: THE COMING OF AGE OF HYPERINTELLIGENCE
BY JAMES LOVELOCK (with Bryan Appleyard) Penguin, London, 2019 Let me begin by noting that I have a vested… Read more NOVACENE: THE COMING OF AGE OF HYPERINTELLIGENCE
RABID by Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy
As a tailgater of genetic and epigenetic advances in medicine, I was fascinated by this somewhat anecdotal and jumpy narrative… Read more RABID by Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy
FIVE STAR DIALOGUE AND MOOD PIECE: ‘THE CHILD THIEF’ BY J. B. ROCKWELL
This stunning short fantasy is published in an anthology titled in LITTLE GIRL LOST, Mannison Press, 2019. It is a… Read more FIVE STAR DIALOGUE AND MOOD PIECE: ‘THE CHILD THIEF’ BY J. B. ROCKWELL
QUICHOTTE by Salman Rushdie
A mesmerizing single-sitting read if you’re up for it. QUICHOTTE is yet another sample of Rushdie’s prose-magic–or “metaphoric roguery”–a serpentine… Read more QUICHOTTE by Salman Rushdie
“STORY OF YOUR LIFE” by Ted Chiang: a structural review
TED CHIANG’s amazing imagination together with his knowledge of math, science, mechanics, and linguistics has gifted us with a volume… Read more “STORY OF YOUR LIFE” by Ted Chiang: a structural review
FIVE STAR Novels of Missing Persons
Jonathan Letham: THE FERAL DETECTIVE. A gripping journey, in the company of Phoebe and the feral Detective Charles Heist, into… Read more FIVE STAR Novels of Missing Persons