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Boy, Snow, Bird

May 9, 2016 by Drew

The Short Version: Boy Novak escapes her brutal father in post-WWII New York and heads north, to the Massachusetts countryside. There, in a small town some way out of Boston, she begins a new life and falls in a kind of love with widower Arturo Whitman and his daughter Snow. But a surprise revelation upon the birth of Arturo & Boy’s daughter changes everything she thought she knew about the town, about her husband, and about herself… The Review: A magic […]

Categories: Fiction, Literature • Tags: Book Review, Book Reviews, BookClub, Books, Boy Snow Bird, Fairy Tales, Fiction, Folklore, Helen Oyeyemi, Historical Fiction, History, Literature, Magical Realism, Race, Reviews

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Orlando

December 16, 2015 by Drew

The Short Version: A young boy of beauty and grace is born during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. But his life is not to be ordinary and will instead last for centuries – and he will, one morning, awake to find that he is now she and a whole new swath of life’s adventures have been opened. The Review: Virginia Woolf doesn’t strike me as the sort of person who’d write a fairy tale, but this comes surprisingly close. I […]

Categories: Fantasy, Fiction, Literature • Tags: Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, Classics, Fairy Tales, Fantasy, Fiction, Gender, History, Literature, Magic, Orlando, Reviews, Virginia Woolf, Woolf 2015

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The Fifty Year Sword

October 28, 2015 by Drew

The Short Version: At a birthday party somewhere in East Texas, Chintana is unhappy – mainly, although not completely, because her recently deceased husband had slept with the birthday girl. She ends up joining a group of five orphans for their story time but the story is not quite what anyone expected and the storyteller carries with him a long black case with five clasps. Do they dare open it, even after hearing the man’s story? The Review: It’s quite clear, […]

Categories: Fiction, Horror, Literature • Tags: A Visit to October Country, Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, Fairy Tales, Fiction, Ghost Stories, Halloween, Horror, Literature, Mark Z. Danielewski, Reviews, The Fifty Year Sword

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