It's time for R.eaders I.mbibing P.eril VIII, Carl's annual event, the goals succinct and satisfying: Mr BIP modified my tombstone: whadya think? 1. Have fun reading (and watching). 2. Share that fun with others. Mystery.Suspense.Thriller.Dark Fantasy.Gothic.Horror.Supernatural. Some stories that I've already read, that I wish I could still read
Curtis Sittenfeld's fiction often focusses on the question of a woman's identity, shifting and pulsing, whether from the perspective of a teenage girl or a president's wife (as in Prep and American Wife). Random House, 2013 When Daisy and Violet were little girls, twins, the sign on their bedroom
In my family, you didn't have to buy diet books. It wasn't that we weren't shopping at Stuckey's and Coyle's: we did so, in bulk. But someone else in the family was guaranteed to have bought whatever new diet book was making waves, so you could borrow their dogeared paperback.
Because Maddaddam is the last work in a trilogy, it's appropriate to consider the author's comments on endings. McClelland & Stewart - Random House of Canada, 2013 They are hard, she says, in interview with Martin Halliwell in 2003, the same year that Oryx and Crake, the first
A blindfolded woman in labour, in the back of a van that has left Evin Prison in Tehran. It's an un-put-down-able scene. Atria Books - Simon & Schuster, 2013 It's 1983, in the third year of the war with Iraq, but the fierce immediacy of the story pulls
