Death on the Installment Plan by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
If you have read Journey to the End of the Night, you already know how that deeply unpleasant that novel is. If you haven't already read this one, you don't know yet how much more deeply unpleasant this novel is. But also it's good? Well, that's not easy to say exactly. The two novels together … [Read more]
Nothing Sung and Nothing Spoken by Nita Tyndall
Yup, I cried, but no one is surprised. Nothing Sung and Nothing Spoken is a story of resistance and making joy during dark times, as well as family and love. It is a story that examines when safety stops being enough and it’s time to resist and push back against harmful regimes. It is also the … [Read more]
Poem Unlimited by Harold Bloom
Another one of Harold Bloom's short guiding texts about one of Shakespeare's plays. In these text (and I think this is the first of them, and the inspiration for the others) Bloom takes on the play either in order, thematically, or both and does both general and close-readings of them. At times the … [Read more]
The Children on the Hill by Jennifer McMahon
McMahon is such a hit or miss for me. The latest, was definitely a miss. I liked the idea of reimaging Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein", but the results were not that great. I think that if the book had stayed more focused on the past before moving onto the "present" maybe the book would have worked … [Read more]
Owen by Elle M Drew
Elle M. Drew has written a novel for which the plus size community has been yearning. OWEN is about a plus size female named Tess who loves sex and loves her body. Her weight is not something that needs to be overcome for her to find happiness. She has moved to a tiny, remote mountain town to do … [Read more]
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House by Eric Hodgins
CBR14 BINGO: Heart, because I received this book from my hubby for our anniversary, and also because it was the inspiration for a movie I absolutely love. Long before I ever owned a home, much less thought about remodeling one, I loved the movie Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House starring Cary … [Read more]
