Some Assembly Required: Two Novels Fill the Gaps

2014-05-13T14:25:03-04:00

This is from Gabriel's neighbour, Giuditta. "One day Gabriel opened up more than usual and told me he had four sons. From four different women. In four different countries." The reader wonders if perhaps he opened up more to her than to anyone; Gabriel is a cipher, someone the reader knows

Some Assembly Required: Two Novels Fill the Gaps2014-05-13T14:25:03-04:00

Cary Fagan’s A Bird’s Eye (2013)

2022-02-02T19:27:06-05:00

Readers have an elevated view of the events in Cary Fagan's A Bird's Eye. "Over streets, over the buildings of the university with the zigzag pattern on their roofs, over the playing fields towards the downtown." And, yet, readers glimpse, in the opening chapters, all the characters necessary for an

Cary Fagan’s A Bird’s Eye (2013)2022-02-02T19:27:06-05:00

The Time We All Went Marching

2014-03-20T14:57:01-04:00

At first it seems simple. One scene after the next. Imagine them, jotted on yellowed, soiled, stained pages from eighty-someodd-years ago. Scattered across time and space, you quietly order each of these moments in your reader's mind. You think you are assembling a timeline, affording these scenes refuge

The Time We All Went Marching2014-03-20T14:57:01-04:00

Building: Dr. Brinkley’s Tower

2020-08-19T08:27:35-04:00

I first posted about Robert Hough's novel in a whirl, having read Dr. Brinkley's Tower in less than 24 hours, falling fast and fully into the story. I avoided specifics about the plot and the characters, because the wonder of this novel is rooted in the telling. House of Anansi,

Building: Dr. Brinkley’s Tower2020-08-19T08:27:35-04:00

Robert Hough’s Dr. Brinkley’s Tower (2012)

2020-08-19T08:27:48-04:00

In which I chat about reading Dr. Brinkley's Tower in a single day. (You can't build a tower that quickly, but you can read about it.) Admittedly, I shuffled this volume amongst my stack of current reads for weeks before I started reading. (There is always a book in there that

Robert Hough’s Dr. Brinkley’s Tower (2012)2020-08-19T08:27:48-04:00
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