Don Quixote is often cited as the first modern #novel - a book about a man who reads so much he starts living inside stories.
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Rated Apples Never Fall 10/10
I thought this would be more of a mystery/murder novel, really it was a deep look into a family's history and background. All the main characters get some viewpoint time and they are all very well developed, plus the plot of the story is sort of gradually revealed in flashbacks and partly through the police investigation. Also several short chapters with one-time viewpoint characters (mostly neighbours or friends of the family) show up too. I liked it a lot more than I was expecting too, maybe I'll try some of her other books too.
“Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me a little? For all my despair, for all my ideals, for all that – I love life. But it is hard, and I have so much – so very much to learn.”
Sylvia Plath, #author of The Bell Jar
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Orwell once explained his mission very simply: he wrote because there was “some lie” he wanted to expose and “some fact” he wanted people to see.
Happy Birthday George Orwell!
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Rated Torchwood: A Postcard From Mr Colchester 7/10
<div>Wish it was longer, but for a freebie, this was amusing. I wasn't previously acquainted with this Torchwood character.</div>
Rated Tropic of Squalor: Poems 8/10
So much good stuff in here. Sad, thoughtful, reverent, maybe sometimes a little too on the nose, but that's ok too.
Rated Uncanny Magazine Issue 14: January/February 2017 4/10
<div>Though I appreciate what this mag is trying to do in terms of prioritizing different voices in fantasy writing, unfortunately it doesn't bring much that I enjoyed. I liked a few things in here well enough (the Santería poem the most, maybe), but groaned at a LOT of the stories. Overcooked prose, badly in need of trimming, bangs out a thesaurus' most "whimsical" adjectives when a simpler approach would do. One interview was better than the other.<br><br>Just not for me, but at least it wasn't all bad. And it was short. I'm sure other issues are better, but I'm not in a hurry to find out.</div>
"Write the truest sentence that you know."
That simple advice guided Ernest Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) throughout his life. A reporter, soldier, traveler, Nobel Prize winner, and master storyteller, he transformed real-life adventure into timeless literature.
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Rated They Came to Baghdad 6/10
Rated Necessary Trouble: Americans In Revolt 8/10
This is terrific. An overview of protest, activism and radicalism in the years since the financial crisis, weaving together a strong argument from threads like Black Lives Matter, the Tea Party, fast food and retail worker organizing and Occupy. Serious, wide-ranging and well-researched, but manages to be a brief, fast read - lots of elegantly-put truth bombs. She puts the activists she talks with in historical and economic context and illustrates how systems like the housing industry, student loans, police and courts work to distribute power upward. I like especially that this is not just disaster porn, the opening chapter to some dystopian novel - Jaffe is angry about important things but an optimist too, and she spends her time talking to the people who are fighting and winning some concrete victories. Highly recommend.
Rated Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls 10/10
Rated Project Hail Mary A Novel 10/10
