by Admin | Sep 28, 2021 | Uncategorized
Matrix by Lauren Groff is a welcome assault on readers’ sensibilities–in this case ears and eyes, to say nothing of minds. In uniquely syntaxed prose, lucid and almost cinematographic in the unfolding of her tale, Groff creates a 12th century world that relies on...
by Admin | Sep 20, 2021 | Uncategorized
In Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell, this highly regarded author delivers another slamdunk novel. Hamnet is her first venture into historical fiction. She creates the ethos of rural, Elizabethan England within the story of grief-stricken domesticity, as an unpretentious...
by Admin | Nov 14, 2019 | creativity, Literature, Memoir, Uncategorized
Reviewed By Janet Levine Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and Me: A Memoir Image of Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and Me: A Memoir Author(s): Deirdre Bair Release Date: November 12, 2019 Publisher/Imprint: Nan A. Talese Pages:...
by Admin | Nov 14, 2019 | Baboon Camp, Coming-of-age, family, Memoir, Okavango Delta, Uncategorized, young adults
Reviewed By Janet Levine Wild Life: Dispatches from a Childhood of Baboons and Button-Downs Image of Wild Life: Dispatches from a Childhood of Baboons and Button-Downs Author: Keena Roberts Release Date: November 12, 2019 Publisher/Imprint: Grand Central Publishing...
by Admin | Nov 7, 2019 | family, gay and lesbian, historical fiction, human rights, Uruguay
Reviewed By Janet Levine Cantoras: A novel Image of Cantoras: A novel Author(s): Carolina De Robertis Release Date: September 3, 2019 Publisher/Imprint: Knopf Pages: 336 Buy on Amazon “If this book were an opera, De Robertis would be deafened by curtain call after...