This is a book that begins in pain and ends in pain, but the journey from the beginning to the end does not take a straight path. The book opens in a French school yard where a boy has just been hit in the chest with a snowball and faints. His sister is brought in and what becomes clear is that the … [Read more]
The worst part of writing this statement was recalling all of these events because, honestly, I’d just as soon forget.
This is a very good story collection that came out in 2018, but it's from a relatively small university press. The reviews for it are also lauding. The cover lead me to believe it would be another "weird" book like I enjoyed with variable levels from the collections "Heads of Colored People" and … [Read more]
I wanted to tell you a lie.
I read Kiese Laymon's novel Long Division and his nonfiction essays How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others a few years back and I could tell by the early previews and even the cover of this book that it was likely to be very good. And it is. There's a handful of comparisons on the cover of this book … [Read more]
CBR Diversions: Holiday Season –Time To Give BOOKS
I completely ADORED My Lady Jane a few years ago. It was so refreshing and funny and unique, with such a great audio narrator. I had high hopes for this next book in the series and HALLELUJAH it delivered. It's not quite as shockingly quirky as My Lady Jane (nobody's fiance regularly turns into a … [Read more]