Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall's Ghosted Random House 2010 Reasons (Not necessarily good ones) that I didn’t expect to like Ghosted: 1. These words on the flyleaf: gangster, hotdogs, suicide, heroin-smoking, tragedies (bit redundant, eh); 2. Ray Robertson’s blurb beginning with “Lean and mean and...” (though ending “with a surprising amount of heart”);
William Kotzwinkle The Bear Went Over the Mountain Henry Holt, 1996 This one came my way via a recommendation from Corey Redekop when I was chattering about bookish fiction. At first I was really excited about it, but, when I got my copy and saw the blurb on the back
Nicole Brossard's Fences in Breathing, Translated from the French (2007), Susanne de Lotbiniere-Harwood Coach House Books, 2009 Today's bookish book was an easy choice because I had chosen Nicole Brossard as one of the writers whose feminist writing I wanted to explore for this year's Women Unbound Reading Challenge and
John McNally's After the Workshop Counterpoint, 2010 Not just another bookish Friday, nope: this bookish-book Friday comes to you thanks to Sasha and the Silverfish, whose rave post about John McNally's novel ensured its placement -- and her acknowledgement -- in my Bad Blogger's category. The TwentyTen Reading Challenge demands
Kathryn Stockett's The Help Penguin, 2009 I don't listen to a lot of audiobooks; it's not that I have a philosophical stance against them, I'm just old-fashioned, so the first inclination is to pick up the book. But what I do quite enjoy is having both options, so that if
