Book Reviews
Like you, we love books... and the next best thing to reading books is reading about books! Below you'll find an assortment of reviews for titles that we regularly stock. Also, be sure to check out our online catalog.
Book Review: Nevada by Imogen Binnie
I was given a copy of the e-book of Nevada by Imogen Binnie to review by my friends at Topside Press. Imogen is one of those friends-in-law people I know to be awesome but don’t know personally, and I was excited to read her first novel. I seriously couldn’t put it down! Nevada was the first work of fiction I’ve read in a long time that made me want to keep reading...
Epiphanies For Characters, Readers
We, The Children Of Cats, by Tomoyuki Hoshino, edited and translated by Brian Bergstrom with an additional translation by Lucy Fraser. PM Press, 2012, 266 pages, $20 (paperback) In a moving preface to the English translation, author Tomoyuki Hoshino speaks of his love for the stories (five in all) and novellas (three) included in this volume. He gives the reader a valuable clue to...
When She Woke
Hillary Jordan’s latest novel, When She Woke, is nothing short of a revelation about the power of a government to brainwash its people. The novel opens with a quote from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter: “ ‘Truly, friend, and methinks it must gladden your heart, after your troubles and sojourn in the wilderness,’ said the townsman, ‘to...
We, The Children of Cats by Tomoyuki Hoshino
In “Paper Woman,” the first story of Hoshino’s debut collection We, the Children of Cats, the narrator (also named Tomoyuki Hoshino) ends the story by proclaiming the death of literature: Paper’s absence taught me that novels are already meaningless, that their meaning has always been illusory. There is no one left who craves words like she did, who wants to...
'Three' by Annemarie Monahan
One morning, a 17-year-old girl opens her high school English textbook to “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” and reads her favorite lines aloud: Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach? I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach. I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to...
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