Morality Play is another jewelbox novel – sparse, elegant, compact. There is a simplicity and a brevity to the story – it takes place over two weeks – that could feel insufficient, but doesn’t. This could be a longer book, but the sketchbook quality of it fits the time and story. The story is that of a young medieval priest, not without sin, and fairly self-aware. He’s a wanderer, restless and hungry, who stumbles upon a scene of death. A band of players in the […]
Dreamy Italian Romance
“Dreamy” is an appropriate adjective for this wisp of novel. It is misty & poetic, with lovel moments. But it lacked the substance I like to round out my poetry & romance. Loosely based on Pellegrino Turri’s invention of the typewriter – very loosely – this novel focuses on the young recipient of that typewriter, the countess Carolina. Events revolve mostly around her journey into blindness, her world shrinking as she loses her peripheral vision, dwindling to a small window of sight, to finally nothing. […]