I finished Michael J. White's debut novel Weeping Underwater Looks a Lot Like Laughter pretty quickly. On top of that, I finished it over a month ago. I didn't review it sooner because I couldn't…
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A bridge too short
I expected to like Julie Orringer's novel, The Invisible Bridge, more than I did. It had a great premise: a love story torn apart by World War Two, and a plot that spanned the European…
Big Love. Kind of.
When it comes to families, I think that Tolstoy (in Anna Karenina) said it best: “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” And I think Brady Udall had…
Dear Mr. Simmons: Please Show. Don’t Tell.
Dan Simmons has dabbled in a lot of genres: Horror/Thriller, Science Fiction, Detective/Crime, and (his latest trend) fiction inspired by actual events. His writing has always revealed how well read and well researched he is….
A novel as wily as its namesake
I think it's fair to say that most people have (at least) a passing sense of Homer's Odyssey. From Armand Assante to the Coen Brothers to James Joyce, the story of Odysseus's voyage home has…