The setting for the three stories in Railway Confessions is a train ride from Paris to Geneva, during which three pairs of strangers share intimate details of their lives […]
Ironically, Clips & Consequences is in part what is known, by definition, as a confessional memoir. In other words, the book […]
To enter the world in Promised Valley Rebellion is to experience a culture that is both familiar, with the emotions, fears, temptations and desires all humans possess, yet faraway and misty and almost like the Middle Ages, but not even exactly like that either. It’s definitely in another time – one that divides its days by the moon and seasons.
It’s a place without skyscrapers, but with a civilization that recognizes classes where people are born into groups known as valley people, hill people and river people. There are hierarchies, with gods over all, kings as rulers of people, tellers […]
“I just wanted to see what was simply hidden by their shame. I just wanted to see what they did when the forces of the social world weren’t constraining them.”
Brendan Cox’s Left Unspoken is not your everyday novella. When Raymond “Ray” Cobley was six years old he learned that his parents agreed to have everything he says recorded. The transcript won’t be read until after Raymond’s death. In return, a certain amount of money will be deposited each week into an account for Ray. Every word he utters over his entire lifetime will be written down. Can you imagine […]
While Ellery’s struggle is perhaps the most developed, Julien and Katrine weigh their choices with equal depth of feeling. Moncel […]
Although this book is primarily made with blog posts, this is definitely a memoir. While I’m certain Derek would be first in line to acknowledge he’s not a writer of fine literature, his blog posts aren’t “random thought” or diary-type entries; this is a collection of essays, each containing a narrative arc, a thought process, if you will, that […]
I look for clues within the first paragraphs of a novel as to what particular kind of story the author wants to tell me and how she intends to go about it. The first two sentences of this novel irritated me: “I don’t want to be a writer. I want to be a painter.” That doesn’t sound logical, I said to myself. Why fight reality? The Prologue soon continues with “as it turns out, being a writer in a coma leaves me with many more options than being a painter in a coma would.” Lilli Jolgren Day balances existential questioning […]
Detective John Ressler is faced with a series of murders that defy logic. The serial killer has an artistic streak; setting his victims in some outlandish poses, painting them, photographing them, dressing them and creating works to enhance their death – and leaving the art at the scene. What is even more bizarre is that some of the crimes appear to be impossible to have set up and executed in the time allotted. When they finally capture the artist, he disappears from the holding cell. Ressler and his partner Holt are stumped.
Mr. Finney then takes us off the grid […]