Spoonbenders is a slow burning story that I urge you to stick with despite its meandering narrative. I frequently put this one down and thought about giving up but my sister had warned me that it may take a while to get going so I stuck with it. Ultimately this is a strange but enjoyable book about the psychic Telemachus family in 1995 Chicago. “I can’t believe this is allowed by state law. You can’t just put a pile of shaved beef—” “Italian beef,” she said. […]
Good Concept That Didn’t Pan Out
This book was recommended to me by a bookclub friend. “Lesbian scientists!” she said. “There’s a drug that makes people see God (or Gods or G-d),” she said. It sounded like a cool idea, reminding me a little of Nexus by Ramez Naam or some post-William Gibson kind of thing about our modern technology gone just a little too far. My overall experience of reading this book was just “meh.” The concept did sound pretty interesting and it begins with a character who is a […]
A Constellation of Tales
Though the title makes it sound like it’s a collection of new stories, The Starlit Woods is a collection of re-told fairy tales. I had a different perception going into the book, though being a fan of retold fairy tales I didn’t mind that the stories were retellings and not completely original stories. This is a really good collection of stories and while there were a couple I wasn’t fond of, most were very compelling. I decided to check this book out because the list […]