In the Balance: Will Starling and Punishment

2015-01-27T17:31:50-05:00

Crimes of the past lurk beneath the stories in Ian Weir's Will Starling and Linden MacIntyre's Punishment and the main characters lurch towards and stumble into confrontations and altercations with life-long repercussions. Goose Lane Editions, 2014 These are both dark tales, but Ian Weir's novel is literally and figuratively so: "And

In the Balance: Will Starling and Punishment2015-01-27T17:31:50-05:00

Between Generations: Two Novels and a Memoir

2023-10-04T11:25:00-04:00

Cristina Henriquez’s The Book of Unknown Americans (2014) Bond Street Books - Random House, 2014 It’s risky, fragmenting narration into a large number of voices, but it’s the perfect format for a novel about the experiences of newcomers to the United States, who can have an astonishing variety

Between Generations: Two Novels and a Memoir2023-10-04T11:25:00-04:00

August 2014, In My Reading Log

2024-05-09T11:59:34-04:00

Although I always have a small stack of books underway, I have carried to extremes this act of multi-booking this summer. Yesterday I finished Michael Crummey’s new novel (Sweetland), Alison Wearing’s memoir (Confessions of a Fairy’s Daughter), Jan Zwicky’s poetry collection, the second volume in the Fruits Basket manga series,

August 2014, In My Reading Log2024-05-09T11:59:34-04:00

Deryn Collier’s Mysteries: All-too-believable

2014-05-28T14:08:40-04:00

Simon & Schuster, 2014 Just as one character follows another's gaze, readers of Deryn Collier's mysteries will find their perspective shifting. "The cafe was starting to fill with lunch customers. Duke Forsberg stayed in place, rolling his now-empty coffee cup between his meaty hands. He stared straight ahead

Deryn Collier’s Mysteries: All-too-believable2014-05-28T14:08:40-04:00

Susie Moloney’s Things Withered (2013)

2014-05-28T10:22:46-04:00

With book in hand, readers will know this is a collection of short fiction marketed as horror stories. But that's a broad stroke; Dracula and The Stand are both frightening tales. In the hands of Susie Moloney, a horror story sometimes means gruesome and moist: "Brains and cranial fluid seeped

Susie Moloney’s Things Withered (2013)2014-05-28T10:22:46-04:00
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