When I first started reading A Line Made By Walking by Sara Baume, I smiled grimly. Like the novel's protagonist, Frankie, and indeed like the author herself, I too take pictures of dead little creatures. We are never as unique or exceptional as we think we are, a fact that Frankie--an aspiring and, in her mind, failed… Continue reading Book Review: A Line Made By Walking, by Sara Baume
Category: Book Reviews
Know Thy Shelf | 01
One of my favorite blogs is The [Blank] Garden, a reading journal slash book review website. Almost every review (or what its creator, Juliana Brina, wonderfully describes as "efforts of affection") is written as a letter to the author of the novel or story in question, which I adore and, as a longtime letter-writer, I… Continue reading Know Thy Shelf | 01
Who Was Changed And Who Was Dead
"After lunch I'll go out in the boat again; I might see something interesting. There should be a lot of interesting things around after a flood like this. Surely in all this water someone must have drowned." Offbeat, droll, macabre. Whimsical, charming, strangely delightful. Barbara Comyns' Who Was Changed And Who Was Dead is the… Continue reading Who Was Changed And Who Was Dead