reading notes

by John Barlow ISBN: 0060591757 The book’s title comes from the first of the three novellas in it. Curiously, fewer mammals are eaten in “Eating Mammals” than in the other two stories. Furniture gets eaten; a brass plaque gets eaten; a bankrupting gross of oysters gets eaten. “Eating Mammals” is about The Great Michael ‘Cast [...]

by Sherman Alexie ISBN: 0802138004 Finding new-to-me authors I enjoy is always a kick; finding new-to-me authors who are prolific and still publishing is even better. Which is to say that even though this the first of Alexie’s books I’ve read, it won’t be the last. This collection of short stories is populated by characters [...]

A Native Narrative by Thomas King ISBN: 0887846963 This is another one of those books that I’m not sure how to talk about because I want to find the right way to tell you to go read it, right now, because it is worth your time. This is a nonfiction book — the content was [...]