Archive for 2008
The Girl in the Flammable Skirt
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
by Aimee Bender
ISBN: 0385492162
I love weird stories. When I read
Willful Creatures back in January, I knew I'd need to track down the rest of Bender's work.
This story collection
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St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
by Karen Russell
ISBN: 9780307276674
This is a book of deep and intricately twisted stories, the kind that made me squirm the way only childhood injustices or impending adolescent disaster can.
Russell is
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The Stone Gods
Monday, June 2nd, 2008
by Jeanette Winterson
ISBN: 9780151014910
I read this book pretty much in one go, on a Sunday afternoon. I love (okay, I have a love/bitter disappointment relationship with) Winterson's books, so it
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The Object Stares Back
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
On the Nature of Seeing
by James Elkins
ISBN: 0156004976
There is no such thing as "just looking"; Elkins argues persuasively that seeing is more complicated than that. As an art historian with
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