Tag: Books Read

December 17, 2018

Short stories can illuminate psychological truths without the effort to the writer or the reader of a full-length novel.

October 30, 2018

Goodreads supported book snapshot reviews better than my site. Now I use Goodreads for my new reading.

May 11, 2016

Enjoyed Laura Lippman

October 6, 2015

New Guinea natives in 1885 sitting on beach

Nutritionally poor crops, not allowing excess production to support specialization
Local animals were not large enough and trainable, leaving little excess talent available to come up with improvements

An Empire of Wealth. John Steele Gordon

September 8, 2015

… much to admire about the book; nonetheless, the antagonism to the Glass-Steagall Act was striking in revealing Gordon’s short-sightedness to the coming financial crisis, with banks taking massive risks with depositors money that the government, not banks, had to guarantee.

Reading for Ethics in Literature

August 15, 2015

The Hunger Games, Frankenstein, and more.

Magazines and Anthologies with Short Stories

December 21, 2013

I noticed the other day when I posted a snapshot of ‘Buffalo Girls’ that it was the first novel I’d read in 4 months. After I finished scolding myself, I recalled that I’d taken a short story appreciation class in Aug and Sep and had continued on in that vein for awhile.

Story or Essay

September 4, 2013

Diem Perdidi by Julie Otsuka

It’s a good example of the difference to a reader between a story and an essay. Ms. Otsuka could have described the mother in either style.

Christine Falls

August 11, 2013

Most of the pleasure … psychological unfurling of Dr. Quirke … the author enjoys using opposite emotional valences to describe an event, a linguistic chiaroscuro.