Category: Reviews
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Oh, Meryl
I love Meryl Streep. And so whenever she has a movie out, I go, even if the movie sounds totally ridiculous. Okay, so I missed Mamma Mia. I just couldn’t bring myself to see it. It was too far out of my range. But I did go tonight to see Julie and Julia, which sounded…
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Another satisfied reader
A few weeks back I was inspired to have a book giveaway and today another review from that giveaway has appeared. An excerpt: Is this a sad novel, given that a few of the stories focus on suicide and many on death? In some ways, yes. It’s even deeper than that, though, as it shows…
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Touch
Hey-ho. I’m back from ICFA, the International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts, which is held every year around this time down in Orlando, Florida. It’s one of my new regular conferences to attend now. It’s a hybrid conference for both academics and creative writers, so you get both academic panels about the literature…
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And another
Another review I missed, this one from Karen Burnham over at SF Signal: Excerpt: The Love We Share Without Knowing is a beautiful and only lightly fantastic book. It follows the lives of different people in modern day Japan as they intersect with each other, often tangentially, sometimes meaningfully. It looks at friendship, love, and alienation.…
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A review and an unintended twist
Two things: A very cool review that I somehow missed, which appeared in The Pacifican, the newspaper for The University of the Pacific, out in Stockton, CA. Yo, Stockton! An excerpt: With lovely descriptions of Japan’s countryside and cities, this novel is rife with astute observations about people and the relationships they have with nature…
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Things Mean A Lot
Updated at bottom One of my favorite book bloggers is Nymeth, of Things Mean A Lot. I discovered her blog last year when she reviewed One for Sorrow, and have consistently returned ever since because the way she writes about the books she’s read is really lovely, and almost always spot on when something she’s…
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Days like today
Today was a good day. Three really nice things happened, and I’ll go backwards in the order of their appearance. Tonight I went to Kent State’s Trumbull County campus, a satellite of the main campus which is actually in Kent, Ohio. The Trumbull campus is a place where a lot of students in this region…
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Library Journal review
I missed this review when it came out in early December, but having come across it now, am putting it up as I have with the other reviews that have come in since The Love We Share Without Knowing has been published. It’s a good one! 🙂 (Deserving of a smiley face, especially since I…
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Snow Day
It’s a snow day here in Youngstown, always one of my favorite sorts of days since I was a little boy. Magical things happen on them, it seems, or at least they do in my memory, which is simply the other side of dreaming, so perhaps that’s where some of the magic in my memories…
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Indie Next
I mentioned in an earlier post that the new book was selected as a notable book for January 2009 on the American Book Seller’s Association’s Indie Next List. From what I’ve gathered, books are nominated for the list by independent booksellers. In the list’s pamphlet for the month, a statement from the bookseller that nominated…