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Recommended by: Loved Susan Palwick’s first book Flying in Place The Necessary Beggar begins with a flurry of long hyphenated names and fantastical pronouncements. “It’s an allegory,” I told myself, and kept reading. The story soon descends into grimness at a US internment camp, but does not lose its fairy tale tone. Even at [...] Recommended by: David Schwartz In Greek myth, Alcestis was the perfect wife because she stepped forward to die in place of her husband. After three days, Heracles rescued her from Hades. This book explores the raw, harsh side of the myth, starting with childbirth and death, continuing with sisterhood and death, and ending in rape [...] The Wild Wood is part of the same series of books based on Brian Froud’s illustrations as Something Rich and Strange. Charles de Lint is a well-known fantasy author, but the writing in this book is distractingly amateurish, with overly detailed descriptions of people’s clothes and exact measurements of snowfall, along with cardboard characterizations. For example, [...] Some 30 years ago, I picked up an unassuming paperback copy of Patricia McKillip’s “The Riddle-Master of Hed” at a library book sale. When I finished it, I held the closed book in my hands, paused, then turned to the first page to begin again. I’ve been a fan of that series, and of [...] I wanted to love and learn from this book, but there were too many jarring inconsistencies with my own knowledge. As a child, Rachel falls 9 stories and her only lasting injury is to the hearing in one ear. With everything I know about physical and psychological trauma, I wanted at least one sentence [...] Subtitle: Yet Another Troll-Fighting 11-Year-Old Orthodox Jewish Girl Recommended by: Barry Deutsch’s Alas, A Blog A graphic novel set in an Orthodox Jewish town called Hereville, in a blended family with many girls and one little brother. The facial expressions and other details in the drawings are captivating – I read the book twice and noticed a [...] Recommended by: emilytheslayer on LiveJournal because Nisi Shawl is one of WisCon’s 2011 guests of honor “Filter House” is a collection of fantasy and science fiction short stories, written with exquisite integrity. I felt safe in the author’s hands as she portrays people of color, people of size, people with disabilities and other marginalized groups as [...] Based on the title, I thought this would be a sequel to Lamott’s Bird by Bird, about the process of writing. Instead, it is a novel about teenage angst, drug-use, manipulation, and lies, and adult anxiety, denial, and tense sobriety. In each encounter, characters are described by weight and attractiveness, as if that’s what [...] Recommended by: Marissa Lingen The title sounded familiar and I thought I read it as a child, but the story itself didn’t ring any bells. Published in 1957, the book features two half-grown kids interacting with two elderly people living in abandoned summer homes, surrounded by lots of nature and lots of kindness. Portia visits her cousin [...] Recommended by: Willamette Writers Portland In this novel, a rural Minnesota family reels from the mother’s cancer diagnosis. We see Theresa, only 38, and her partner and children grappling with her illness. I loved the finely detailed setting. The trees, the bears, the snow, and the routinely-traveled distances all bring rural Minnesota to life. The [...] |
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