Sunday Praise: What’s Made Me Happy This Week?
A Blogversary and the year when Everything Is Going to be Alright!
Announcing the Brian Moore at 100 Read-along for 2021!
My Year in Books 2020!
No 447 Every Day is for the Thief by Teju Cole
Teju Cole’s Every Day is for the Thief takes its title from a Yoruba proverb: ‘Every day is for the thief, but one day is for the owner’. It is a sly commentary on this narrative experience of a young Nigerian – a psychiatry student in New York – who returns home to Lagos for…
Sunday Praise: What’s Made Me Happy This Week?
No 448 The Cutting Season by Attica Locke
I reviewed Attica Locke’s debut novel Black Water Rising back in 2014 and wasn’t particularly impressed at the time. The Cutting Season, her second novel is a more accomplished and enjoyable crime novel. Almost all the action of The Cutting Season takes place in a historic Louisiana mansion called Belle Vie, once a working sugar…
No 449 Homer and Langley by E.L. Doctorow
Homer and Langley by E L Doctorow is a moving and elegiac novel, based on the real life Collyer brothers. The Collyers were wealthy New York bachelors who lived a reclusive life together in their four-story brownstone in New York. They were compulsive hoarders of all kinds of useless items and were found dead, buried…
