I don’t usually make these kinds of announcements on my blog because, well, most of the time everyone knows the results of an award before I do for some reason. BUT, I was so excited to see that Jesmyn Ward took the top award for fiction this year at the National Book Awards – and [...]
Posts under ‘Five-Ten Star Books’
The Marriage Artist – Book Review (and Giveaway)
When he thought of Wind, when he thought of Aleksandra, when he thought of his father – when Daniel thought of anyone he had known who was now dead – what survived of them was not only love. What survived also were the echoes of all the resistance they had thrown up to life (and [...]
Compiling Nominations for the Indie Lit Awards
Have you heard about the Indie Lit Awards? The Independent Literary Awards are book awards given by literary bloggers. Lit bloggers write about books and literary related items. They are the fastest growing form of publicity in the literary world, though most are still independently run and do not receive compensation for their reviews or [...]
Salvage the Bones – Book Review
I will tie the glass and stone with string, hang the shards above my bed, so that they will flash in the dark and tell the story of Katrina, the mother that swept into the Gulf and slaughtered. Her chariot was a storm so great and black the Greeks would say it was harnessed to [...]
Safe From the Sea – Paperback Release
Safe From the Sea by Peter Geye Paperback | 6 x 9 | 256 pages September 2011 ISBN: 978-1-60953-057-0 Unbridled Books has released Safe From the Sea by Peter Geye in paperback TODAY! Why am I so excited? Because I read this book last year and it was one of my top five books of [...]
You Are My Only – Book Review
From Nothing to Big Things, I think. From No One to Someone. It’s a whole wide world out there. – from You Are My Only – Emmy Rane is a mother – first and foremost. She is young, married to a man who is a bully, and has a beautiful baby who is her whole [...]
Steinbeck: A Life in Letters – Book Review
Of course a writer rearranges life, shortens time intervals, sharpens events, and devises beginnings, middles and ends and this is arbitrary because there are no beginning nor any ends. We do have curtains – in a day, morning, noon and night, in a man’s birth, growth and death. These are curtain rise and curtain fall, [...]
The Long Song – Book Review
Kitty turned to face her master. ‘Come along, Caroline. Hurry. We need to get out of the sun.’ ‘Can I take her?’ she asked. Kitty tried to seize air enough to breathe. ‘Yes, if she’ll amuse you. She would be taken soon enough anyway. It will encourage her to have another. They are dreadful mothers, [...]
Everything Beautiful Began After – Book Review
On the way back home through the dusk, she’s going to ask her father for the story of how he met her mother. All she knows is that someone fell, and that everything beautiful began after. – from Everything Beautiful Began After, Prologue – Three people’s lives intersect in Athens, Greece one summer. Athens has [...]
The Tiger’s Wife – Book Review
My grandfather never refers to the tiger’s wife by name. His arm is around me and my feet are on the handrail, and my grandfather might say, “I once knew a girl who loved tigers so much she almost became one herself.” Because I am little, and my love of tigers comes directly from him, [...]
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