This is a book of short stories chronicling the unremitting horror of being a woman in India. It is poetic, descriptive, and unrelenting in its portrayal of what life is like for the unlucky woman who is poor, unable to produce sons or widowed. Each separate story outlines one possible scenario where a happy person…
Month: November 2018
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“Rotten Magic” by Jeffrey Bardwell
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Okay, how to put this. “Rotten Magic” is not a novel. According to the title of the Introduction, it is “Notes from the Artificer’s Guild.” A much more apt description. It is more like a series of short stories with chapters interspersed between each other. Likewise, the writing style comes at you just a bit…
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“The Realm of Beasts” by Angela J. Ford
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I find this book very much like its cover: a beautiful medley of images, but so unrelated that I cannot quite understand the logic that places them together. It is ostensibly the story of a character with gaps in his memory who is trying to learn both his past and his present in a new…
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“Morgan le Fay: Children of This World” by Jo-Anne Blanco
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In August I reviewed the first book in this series, “Small Things and Great,” and enjoyed it, so I was pleased to take a look at another work by this author. Unfortunately, I was not so impressed by the second book. Less is More Almost twice as long as the first novel, this part of…