It was always nice to get a great little dog who was easy to adopt out, but the special ones – the old ones, the sick ones, the blind and deaf ones the pregnant ones – they really needed someone to help them. – from Love at First Bark – Julie Klam is a sucker [...]
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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 [...]
State of Wonder – Book Review
She knew the story of Orpheus, but it wasn’t until the singing began that she realized it was the story of her life. She was Orfeo, and there was no question that Anders was Euridice, dead from a snake bite. Marina had been sent to hell to bring him back. – from State of Wonder, [...]
The True Memoirs of Little K – Book Review
We girls at the Imperial Theater Schools were no exception. From our ranks, the emperors and the grand dukes, the counts and the officers of guards, chose their mistresses, kept an eye out for a shapely leg or a pretty face. Why, one of them described the ballet as an exhibit of beautiful women, a [...]
Touch and Go – Book Review
I thought of reeds bending but not breaking in the wind, and the strength of roots holding down the reeds – and the force of wind itself, blowing. I was tired of being the reed. – from Touch and Go – Kevin has been blind since a tragic childhood accident. He is still struggling with [...]
The Twisted Thread – Book Review
Its endowment was healthy enough to withstand the students who left, the students who protested, the parents and alumni who wouldn’t give money. It was Armitage: there would always be people who wanted to come here and have a little of its glory conferred on them, a scrap of its reputation. – from The Twisted [...]
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 [...]
Maybe This Time – Book Review
Outwardly normal events slip into drama before they tip into horror. These oblique tales exert a fascinating hold over the reader. – Meike Ziervogel, Peirene Press – Maybe This Time is a translated collection of short stories by Alois Hotschnig, who is considered to be one of Austria’s most talented writers. The collection includes nine [...]
Awakening – Book Review
How did it all begin? Well, I suppose it would be the day I rescued a newborn baby from a poisonous snake, heard the news of my mother’s death and encountered my first ghost. Thinking about it, I could even pinpoint the time. A few minutes before six on a Friday morning and my quiet, [...]
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 [...]
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