Book Reviews
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All Fours – Miranda July
“Sounds like you could use a vacation!” said the long-haired man, smiling and moving away from me. Continue reading
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Children of Memory – Adrian Tchaikovsky
G1: Humour is a human thing. Linguistic humour anyway. G2: Don’t deny my lived experiences. G1: You don’t have lived experiences. That’s my thing. You’re just a mental parasite on the new things I learn. G2: I’m a hoot. G1: That’s owls, anyway. Continue reading
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Cassandra at the Wedding – Dorothy Baker
“I’m Cassandra,” I nevertheless said, “the one who wailed from the walls of Troy.” Continue reading
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Yellowface – R. F. Kuang
“White lies. Dark humor. Deadly consequences… ” should read “Farcical set-up. Tedious exposition. 300-pages.” Continue reading
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Too Loud a Solitude – Bohumil Hrabal
“Most of all I enjoy central-heating control rooms, where men with higher education, chained to their jobs like dogs to their kennels, write the history of their times.” Continue reading
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Last Summer in the City – Gianfranco Calligarch
“Well, I’d arrived where I meant to arrive. Now all I could do was turn back.” Continue reading
