Aryn Kyle's Boys and Girls Like You and Me Scribner, 2010 One of my first favourite short story collections was Bronwen Wallace's People You Could Trust Your Life To and I loved it to bits because it felt so real. Like the text on its pages could have leapt up,
Shyam Selvadurai's Swimming in the Monsoon Sea Tundra Books, 2005 You may have noticed that I'm back to starting the reading weekend with kidlit and young adult novels once more. That, along with some of the other regular features was on holiday for the summer, but last week brought Sherman
Laura Lippman's What the Dead Know Avon-Harper Collins, 2007 I'd seen Laura Lippman's novels around, but Pickle Me This's review made me want to read one. Afterwards, I saw three of them at the library, but I wasn't sure where to start, so I just picked up something I was
C.E. Morgan "Twins" Summer Fiction: 20 Under 40 June14/21 "The New Yorker" The New Yorker's reviewer of C.E. Morgan's first novel, All the Living, wrote: "This lyrical tale of grief and gruelling love on a tobacco farm takes place in the mid-nineteen-eighties but, if not for glimpses of linoleum and
Michael Cunningham's A Home at the End of the World Picador (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), 1990 Michael Cunningham forced my introduction to Virginia Woolf because I desperately wanted to read The Hours and, so, Mrs. Dalloway had to come first. The Hours has been a favourite contemporary novel ever since,
