Saturday, February 24, 2018

Exit West – Book Review Blurb

Exit West – Book Review Blurb: Mohsin Hamid’s sentences in Exit West flow like a brightly colored fly line from a fishing rod’s guides in long iridescent and undulating curves and loops that feel breathless in the way a storyteller would tell a story with only minutes to deliver the message at the end of a …

Monday, February 19, 2018

This Isn’t a Dystopia, Yet: The Berlin Stories

This Isn’t a Dystopia, Yet: The Berlin Stories: With Nationalism and Fascism on the rise and, and actually taking power in the United States under the guise of conservatism, readers have been turning to classic dystopian novels such as 1984, Animal Farm, It Can’t Happen Here, or The Handmaid’s Tale, and these books rocked the best seller list …

Spy of the First Person – Book Review Blurb

Spy of the First Person – Book Review Blurb: In Sam Shepard’s posthumous novella, Spy of the First Person , we are the young observer or the observed dying old man confined to a mostly likely stolen rocking chair when at home or a wheelchair, whose reflections on his life, family, immigrants, medical treatment, and the people who have …