Lemon-Sweet: Half-Blood Blues

2020-05-21T15:55:57-04:00

I spent a ridiculous amount of time touching this cover (and wishing the hole in the centre was actually cut) Esi Edugyan's Half-Blood Blues Thomas Allen Publishers, 2011  In the opening pages of Esi Edugyan’s second novel, readers meet Heiro, Chip, Delilah and Sid, and are immersed in

Lemon-Sweet: Half-Blood Blues2020-05-21T15:55:57-04:00

Mary Horlock’s The Book of Lies (2011)

2014-03-13T20:39:48-04:00

Mary Horlock's The Book of Lies HarperCollins, 2011 Did you know that there were Nazi concentration camps on British soil during the Second World War? I didn’t, but having read The Book of Lies, I now know. There were four of them actually. And it’s highly appropriate that Cat be

Mary Horlock’s The Book of Lies (2011)2014-03-13T20:39:48-04:00

But But But

2014-03-09T14:45:52-04:00

Barbara Kingsolver's The Lacuna Harper Collins, 2008 Both Kingsolver and Waters are on my MRE lists. Some of their books are amongst my ATF (All Time Favourites) and even when I'm less fond of a theme or a set of characters in their works I still enjoy the books because

But But But2014-03-09T14:45:52-04:00

Wanted: One Brownstone

2014-07-11T16:43:19-04:00

Paule Marshall's Brown Girl Brownstones  VMC No. 87 (1959) Without knowing anything of it, I chose Paule Marshall's novel Brown Girl, Brownstones to read with Black History Month in mind (along with Hannah Crafts' The Bondwoman's Narrative and Zora Neale Hurston's Jonah's Gourd Vine). It was kind of a random

Wanted: One Brownstone2014-07-11T16:43:19-04:00
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