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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

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

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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Boy, Snow, Bird

Orlando

The Fifty Year Sword