I liked this one well enough, but I can't say it wasn't a little bit of a disappointment after liking Faye's other books so much. The pacing was very uneven here and I wonder if cutting some of the material (the book is about 400 pages) would have helped. There's a great book in here somewhere, … [Read more]
Maybe just nudge the puppy with your foot a little?
I picked this up because I absolutely loved Gurwitch’s book Fired; for a couple bucks at the library, that and a general regard for the former Dinner and a Movie hostess was enough to part me with my cash. There was a lot of good will going into the purchase. And this wasn’t bad, per se - I got … [Read more]
My little friend was a strange mix of Flemish thrift and artistic fervour.
This is a collection Miss Marple and Poirot stories repackaged and republished in 1961. There's about a split in terms of how many of each you get. What's great about the audiobook version is that a lot of the files are clearly pulled and recollected from other produced audiobooks, so you get a … [Read more]
“We are the farting children of Heaven, blessed be our slippery viscera”
This is a story collection by the Missouri writer Daniel Woodrell, best known for Winter's Bone, which of course brought Jennifer Lawrence into our lives. I feel like anytime you mention an American Southern writer--and yeah it gets complicated when you're talking about Missouri, I know--you are … [Read more]