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Posts from the ‘Contemporary-Literary Fiction’ category

When their father dies suddenly, three kids are left to struggle into youth and then adulthood. One doesn’t make it very far. Toby the youngest, stayed in a make-believe world after the father’s death until he is jolted hard back into reality during a stay…

Tempting Fate: Review of Ralph Cohen’s After Dad

April 13, 2017

  If you want to get a feel for how rural America, or at least the rural South lives, read Bette Lee Crosby’s Spare Change. It is not the pretty “village” story as life can be as hard or harder in the rural areas as…

A Backwoods Story: Review of Bette Lee Crosby’s Spare Change

February 24, 2017

This book one of a three part series. Read this book first, then the next two, for Ancillary Justice sets up the other two. The world created by Ann Leckie is not one that will be familiar to most readers, even those who read primarily…

Literary Sci-Fi: Review of Ann Leckie’s Ancillary Justice

December 29, 2016

Michael Doane’s Six Miles to Roadside Business resembles accounts of the 1960’s flower children era that I’ve read in the past. The writing has a counter-culture, hippie feel. Doane’s writing is not exactly stream of consciousness but real close in that at times it can…

A Metaphysical Journey Through The Desert: Review of Michael Doane’s Six Miles to Roadside Business

October 28, 2016

  If you are looking for a short quick read about random acts of kindness, Christmas Jars is for you. At 122 pages, it reads fast. I was cleaning out mom’s library and ran across this. I have been in a reading slump lately and…

The Miracle of Christmas: A Review of Christmas Jars

July 15, 2016

April 20, 2016 2 New Books For Your TBR Norman Lock’s Literary Poe-like Fiction The Port-Wine Stain – American Novel Series #3 Expected publication: June 14, 2016 A young Philadelphian, Edward Fenzil, who, in the winter of 1844, falls under the sway of two luminaries of the nineteenth-century grotesque…

Waiting on Wednesday

April 20, 2016

April 13, 2016 2 New Books For Your TBR Emma Cline’s The Girls Literary Fiction Expected publication: June 14, 2016. Find it on Amazon. After reading Helter Skeleter, I have always been fascinated with Charles Manson so The Girls is one I look forward to reading. “Northern…

Waiting on Wednesday: Upcoming Book Releases

April 13, 2016

  A work of historical literary fiction, The Children’s Book by A.S. Byatt is also a study of the life of the artist, whether the artist is a writer, a potter, a puppeteer or a jeweler that works in metals. The story opens in 1896…

A Study of the Life of Artist: Review of The Children’s Book by A.S. Byatt

March 31, 2016

  Try Not to Breathe is creepy in a realistic way. Although the story line concerns events in the past for Amy, the victim beaten and left to die, it is a crime that occurs all too often. Seddon to this reader shows why it…

Shouting From The Inside: A Review of Holly Seddon’s Try Not to Breathe

February 24, 2016

If you spent six years of your life in college in the quest to obtain an education only to find out that what you have been studying leads to the conclusion that nothing is permanent or knowable or that there is no end nor beginning,…

What Drives Us? Review of D.J. Swykert’s The Pool Boy’s Beatitude

January 16, 2016
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