A Collection of Dylan Thomas
This volume is a great introduction to Thomas for those that are new to his work, but it also serves as a compact little compliment to those that are familiar with and love Thomas’ work already.
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This volume is a great introduction to Thomas for those that are new to his work, but it also serves as a compact little compliment to those that are familiar with and love Thomas’ work already.
On the blog this month I’m going to feature new re-issues of classic literature and books that could make good gifts for avid readers.
I still do not find myself drawn to Carrère’s memoir or autobiographical work. But I am glad that I gave his fiction and true crime a chance.
I appreciate that her work seems to be suddenly available and back in print. I often find it on shelves and see it arriving at my local independent bookstore.
This collection of essays is written with the air of Indiana looking back at his life and taking an inventory of sorts as he acknowledges that he is living in a time that is closer to the end than to the beginning.
More powerful than gore, I find an eerie atmosphere is what really makes a collection like Ghostroots tick.
Summer Cold It’s been one of those messy, chaotic weeks. Lots of phone calls, lots of errands shoved into not a lot of time. Reading has gotten shoved into the backburner, and we haven’t had a lot of time to spend just quietly on the sofa together. That lack of time and reading time leads […]
Enríquez loves a twist ending, and ghosts and horrors found in unlikely places.
I came late to the work of Dorothy Parker and I came to it in a piecemeal way that I think many modern readers come to it. Honestly, I knew more about the saga of Parker’s mortal remains being stored in a filing cabinet for decades than I did about her.
It’s really a story of two fathers, since it was her uncle that became her father when Danticat was left behind by her parents as they established themselves in America.