Vol 2: Cheri – 4/5 Stars Cheri is the novel of Fred, a young man raised by a single mother who in his 18th year took on an older lover. Combined with the kind of confidence building of this and his own mother’s ways of building him up into something much more than he actually is, he begins to over-estimate himself and act destructively as a consequence. Cheri is a kind of early century (well 1930) primer on toxic masculinity, especially in the ways in […]
So now, whenever I despair, I no longer expect my end, but some bit of luck, some commonplace little miracle which, like a glittering link, will mend again the necklace of my days.
Part 1 of several: The Vagabond – 4/5 Stars The Vagabond is a novel from about 1910 about a Vaudeville/Burlesque performer in her early to mid thirties who, rather being at the end of her long and stories career or getting tired a looking to wind down, finds herself in a strange and scary position of facing the world anew after the radical upheaval of her first husband leaving her. This change does not institute a period of wildness, but does allow her to see […]