“When you got something, someone always wants it,” he said. “You don’t show off what you got, not even your happiness. If you are happy, you go into your room and lock the door. You jump up and down where nobody gonna see your happiness. If you hide all your shiny things, ain’t nobody gonna [...]
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A Constellation of Vital Phenomena – Book Review and Giveaway
At the kitchen table she examined the glass of ice. Each cube was rounded by room temperature, dissolving in its own remains, and belatedly she understood that this was how a loved one disappeared. Despite the shock of walking into an empty flat, the absence isn’t immediate, more a fade from the present tense you [...]
The Paradise Guest House – Book Review and Giveaway
For the last year, she played out every scenario in her mind: He would listen to her, he would rage, he would cry, he would hate her or love her. But he never walked away. – from The Paradise Guest House – At 23:05 Central Indonesian Time (15:05 UTC) on 12 October 2002, a suicide [...]
The End Of The Point – Book Review
There are moments in every life when something terrible happens to someone you love in a place where you are not, and you don’t know what has happened until afterward, and if you had known, you’d have altered the course of things by placing yourself here not there, a restraining wall, a force of nature: [...]
Wanderers: Stories – Book Review and Giveaway
Wanderers: Stories by Edward Belfar Paperback: 218 pages Publisher: Stephen F. Austin University Press (June 5, 2012) Edward Belfar’s collection of stories takes readers to dusty towns in Africa, on a honeymoon in Rome, and to Yankee Stadium, among other places. The characters who people these stories include a man who chooses the wrong wife, a woman [...]
Flight Behavior – Book Review
A small shift between cloud and sun altered the daylight, and the whole landscape intensified, brightening before her eyes. The forest blazed with its own internal flame. “Jesus,” she said, not calling for help, she and Jesus weren’t that close, but putting her voice in the world because nothing else present made sense. – from [...]
The World We Found – Book Review
The clarifying principle. The phrase came into her head so clearly and fully formed, she thought for a moment that someone had said it out loud. But it was just Diane and herself, sitting on the warm sand, and her daughter was staring straight ahead. Besides, the phrase wasn’t new. She had heard it before- [...]
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry – Book Review and Giveaway
He understood that in walking to atone for the mistakes he had made, it was also his journey to accept the strangeness of others. As a passerby, he was in a place where everything, not only the land, was open. People would feel free to talk, and he was free to listen. To carry a [...]
Make It Stay – Book Review
But Tilda’s smile would always – as long as we were to know her – be broken, distant, holding to itself some gritty knowledge, something we could not then guess at, however much we tried. There was mockery in it. There was hatred in it. These were not observations you could prove, or defend. – [...]
National Poetry Month Blog Tour: Guest Post by Michael Meyerhofer
April 2012 As part of National Poetry Month, Serena at Savvy Verse and Wit is hosting a blog tour involving poetry collections, poet interviews, guest posts from poetry readers, and some great poems and discussion (check out this post for the tour schedule). Today the tour is here on Caribousmom and I am delighted to [...]
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