who knows if the moon’s a balloon coming out of a keen city in the sky–filled with pretty people? (and if you and I should get into it if they should take me and take you into their balloon, why then we’d go up higher with all the pretty people EE Cummings, The Moon’s…
The Shitos are a family of eight, spanning four generations and living under the one roof. When a young woman, Noriko, marries the Shito son Kazuhito, she is marrying more than just one man; she is marrying in to his family. Every family has its quirks, its particular way of doing things, but in…
Read more No 507 Now You’re One Of Us by Asa Nonami, translated by Michael Volek & Mitsuko Volek
Well, that’s it for another year. 20 Books of Summer ended yesterday and for myself, it has been a great success. All 5199 pages were read and then some! I read all 20 books – although a lot of those review were mini ones, which I had promised myself I would try to avoid. Time…
Novels about the city of Belfast have a tendency to be set during the Troubles. It is too ingrained in the very fabric of life here to be otherwise. Glenn Patterson’s novel The International does something different. In January 1967, the inaugural meeting of the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association too place in The International…
Read more Northern Exposure: The International by Glenn Patterson (book 13 of #20booksofsummer)
