I don’t generally begin a review by telling people to stop reading but if you are a man hand the laptop/iPad to your better half and go watch ESPN because I’m about to talk about a book about m-e-n-o-p-a-u-s-e. And, really, not even we women want to talk about it so I’m saving you a world of hurt. Now go away. Yes, it’s a natural part of life but while pregnancy is something ... Read More...
What the Lady Wants
For almost as long as I have loved books I have loved fashion and before my career in the book world I was a buyer for a large department store in Atlanta called Rich’s. Remember the good old days when department stores had a name other than Macy’s?! One of the best known in the Midwest was Marshall Field’s and in her new novel, What the Lady Wants, Renée Rosen captures its ... Read More...
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Narrator Rosemary Cooke begins We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves in the middle of her family’s story, which is a quick indication of how this unusual and highly imaginative novel is going to go. The year is 1996 and she’s in her fifth year of college. A gregarious child she has morphed into a quiet and secretive young woman, largely due to the circumstances regarding the ... Read More...
Michel Faber and The Book of Strange New Things
Recently, I reviewed Michel Faber’s new novel The Book of Strange New Things. My greatest sense of the story was a feeling of disconnection and I used descriptors like emotionally sterile, carefully controlled, and, in regards to the main character’s mindset “dreamy apathy”. Then, earlier in the week I came across this interview Faber just did with NPR. I don’t want to ... Read More...
Let Me Be Frank With You
Frank Bascombe is back in Richard Ford’s Let Me Be Frank With You and I, for one am happy to see him again. Ford’s last novel, The Lay of the Land, covered Bascombe’s travails through his mid-fifties in a way that perfectly encapsulated the middle-age process of fight and accept. In Let Me Be Frank With You, Bascombe moves through four vignettes that are comprised of ... Read More...
Free-Range Reading Time!
It’s fortunate that as we head into the busiest time of year for family, shopping, travel and gatherings, the book world slows down. By and large throughout the year we book bloggers are held to a schedule of release dates and have to plan our reading and writing accordingly but November and December are quiet months for new book releases. I had already decided to use this time ... Read More...
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