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Translation of Ch'aesikchuŭija (Published 2007 by Ch'angbi)
Had no idea what to expect from this book, and not to spoil anything, but vegetarianism is a small part of what it's about. The only together person in the whole book is the "crazy" one.
I think I'm done with Peter May books. I really liked the first trilogy I read (the Lewis books), but have not enjoyed the other series he writes as much. This one was a 20 or so years later follow up to that series and I liked it. Also includes some serious anti salmon farming sentiments.
Very funny in a cutting and sarcastic way. I'd look out for more of her books.
Recommended by Miriam Toews in the Guardian
Really enjoyed this book. Shani Mootoo gets right into the heads of the main characters very well, and you're drawn right into their thoughts. Feels like a cliff hanger at the end.
"From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning author--now in the fiftieth year of her remarkable career--a brilliantly …
Just couldn't get behind any of the characters. Nicely written, but not my thing.
Not sure what the classification would be (not SF), but techie horror scenarios played out very well.
Little Labors is a slanted, enchanted literary miscellany. Varying in length from just a sentence …
A series of essays, some really short, the longest only a few pages long, that seemed all over the map, but she still brought it all together very well.
This book won the Giller prize, and whilst it gave a great insight into the lives of these porters and the vast gap in wealth between them and the people riding the train, I never got hooked.
A breathtaking and mysterious new novel from the beloved Anne Michaels, internationally bestselling author of …
The writing in this book is beautiful, but I struggled to keep up with the characters and the generation changes, so I'm thinking it's my fault more than the author's.
Life on our planet as you've never seen it before
A team of astronauts in …
Short book, but very thoughtful and actually makes you feel like you're in orbit with the crew on the space station. Every day, they're amazed to look back on our little blue dot in the universe. The notion of having 8 ? sunrises and sunsets per day while they orbit I found fascinating.
Gilda, a twenty-something, atheist, animal-loving lesbian, cannot stop ruminating about death. Desperate for relief from …
Gilda is a depressed, hypochondriac, atheist lesbian who gets a job as a secretary in a Catholic church. This is pretty dark subject matter but there are some very funny scenes when Gilda is at mass and trying to figure out the lines..... "The jig is up!!". Had no idea what this was going to be about, but I really enjoyed it.
When Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New …
Good version and deviation from the original story. Came to this book after reading reading The Time of the child, which I enjoyed much more, so I may be being hard on it by only giving it four stars.
There is a long series of books featuring Dave Robichaux and Clete Purcel set in and around New Orleans. Kind of hard boiled vets who follow their own code, which is usually honest but not quite within the law. Didn't enjoy this as much as some earlier ones - I think I'm done with this series.
Like the setting of these books in Louisiana