Category: The Love We Share Without Knowing
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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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Wabi-Sabi
A friend wrote today to say, “I read your new book finally. It’s very wabi-sabi.” And more, of course. But if she’d said nothing else but that it was very wabi-sabi, I would have been elated. It’s the descriptor that I feel captures The Love We Share Without Knowing, and in a more American way,…
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Brooklyn Sighting
A snapshot of the most recent book in the wilds of Brooklyn, of all places, sent to me by my friend Robert Levy. That’s a nice wall of books. Thanks, Robert!
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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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Contesting
I received this email from Bookspot Central this evening. If you’re interested in voting for my book, take a trip through the links and do so. Thanks! “This is just a quick note to inform you that you have a book in our March Madness style book tournament over at Bookspot Central. The Tournament takes place…
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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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Locus Poll
Hey, go figure. The Love We Share Without Knowing is on the Locus Recommended Reading List under the fantasy novels category for this year. It’s also one of the options on the Locus Reader’s Poll for best fantasy novel. If you have the time and inclination, go over and vote for it, or for whichever…