Where to start? This book is a work of great creativity and considerable variety: part documentary, part satire, part cartoon, part Science Fiction, quasi-historical and in total quite undefinable. However, I will try. The story is revealed in a series of letters between Theodore Roosevelt, former President of the United States, his family and supporters,…
Month: August 2021
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“Junk Sale” by Patrick Lombardi
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This collection of short stories is held together by a common attitude towards life, shared by the author and all the characters. It could best be described as, “You’re only a loser if it bothers you.” A change from the constant barrage of short stories written about losers because their troubles make us feel good…
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“Straya” by Anthony O’Connor
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Australians have a rather tenuous connection to the English language. They even have a name for their particular dialect, “Strine.” The nice thing about Strine for the rest of us is that it’s almost intelligible. When you see it written down, it’s quite possible, and even fun, to try to figure out where those words…
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“Days of Grey” by Bonnie Allen
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Road trips are boring. Anyone who has ever been on one knows it. Hour after hour of sitting in a vehicle with the unchanging road going by. Anyone who decides that a road trip will be the main action of the story needs to be aware of this. In most action-adventure fantasies of this sort,…
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“Red Blood” by Kaitlin Legaspi
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Now that I have finished this book, I feel rather disappointed. At the beginning, I thought I was reading a pleasant, light YA fantasy. Rather too feel-good for an adult reader, in fact. There seemed to be too much time spent building up the characters and stroking each other’s egos while the readers wanted to…