"Through the shutters, Adair could smell the latrines. It was like the Female Seminary of the Netherworld. A ladies’ academy in hell." - Paulette Jiles, Enemy Women
Review: Enemy Women
Review: Regarding the Pain of Others
"Television news producers and newspaper and magazine photo editors make decisions every day which firm up the wavering consensus about the boundaries of public knowledge. Often their decisions are cast as judgments about "good taste" -- always a repressive standard when invoked by institutions," Susan Sontag.
Review: Girl Meets Boy
Nobody grows up mythless… It’s what we do with the myths we grow up with that matters. — Ali Smith, Girl Meets Boy
Review: Life After Life
"Sometimes it was harder to change the past than it was the future." - Kate Atkinson, Life After Life
Review: People Like Us
“Tell me. Tell me how I did it. Because from where I’m standing, it looks like you’re the one going to prison.”
Review: Three Tales
“The fields were empty, the river rippling in the wind; at the bottom long weeds were waving to and fro, like the hair of corpses floating in the water.” - Gustave Flaubert, Three Tales
Review: Every Heart a Doorway
A series of murders plague the Home and the murderer walks among them. This is the least intriguing possible aspect of McGuire’s unusual world.
Review: Saga Volume 8
Saga Volume 8 may be my last Saga book -- not for any glaring reason, but for not doing anything particularly meaningful.
Team Review: Winter
"Now it's the dark of early Christmas morning, the time before dawn, and this is the best time in the world for an old song about a lost child travelling in the snow." ~ Ali Smith, Winter
Review: The Fox
"In Sartotias-deles, only once have we seen pirates enjoy the protection of the strongest naval power in the world." ~ Sherwood Smith, The Fox
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