We did this last year and got some great responses.
Who do you LOVE this year, writing wise? What books have grabbed you in the last year?
For me, I have been reading the His Dark Materials series by Phillip Pullman lately. I'm digging it.
Who do you LOVE this year, writing wise? What books have grabbed you in the last year?
For me, I have been reading the His Dark Materials series by Phillip Pullman lately. I'm digging it.
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Re: 2008 Valentines
Mon, February 11, 2008 - 10:49 AMI am reading Kathy in Haiti right now by Kathy Acker and it's crazy!
btw, I want to introduce myself, I'm Susan and I'm on staff at the Southern Review, and have just started a tribe for it if you'd like to join.
The Southern Review is one of the country's oldest literary magazines and we publish fiction, poetry and essays. We also have an art section and a beautifully featured artist each issue. Our new editor is Jeanne Leiby who is a fiction writer from near Detroit, the setting for her first book of stories which has just been released from Carolina Wren Press. It is called Downriver and it's great!
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Re: 2008 Valentines
Mon, February 11, 2008 - 7:11 PMStephen Baxter's Time's Tapestry series (Orion/Ace, 2007) has been blowing me away. I've read the first two volumes (Emperor, Conqueror) and have yet to start in on his third volume, Navigator. (I believe the last volume, Weaver, has yet to be published.) The series is an alternate history set mainly in the UK.
Speculative Japan (Gene Van Troyer & Grania Davis, Eds., Kurodahan Press, 2007) is a terrific collection of Japanese speculative literature, some of it reprints, some of it in English for the first time. Not only are the stories exquisite (I found myself thinking of Kurosawa's Dreams cast in literature), but the essays provide a valuable and fascinating historical perspective on the genre in that part of the world.
Bruce Boston's The Guardener's Tale (Sam's Dot Publishing, 2007) is a dystopia with marvelous world/character building and verbal brushstrokes, filled with parallels and reversals.
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Re: 2008 Valentines
Tue, February 12, 2008 - 9:30 PMThis past year I devoured Edith Wharton's short stories. My lands, that lady could kick serious ass! I also scarfed Kage Baker's finale to the "Company" series of short stories and novels -- SF series that started off funny and poignant with "In the Garden of Iden", stayed funny but got into serious questions of culture and responsibility, then got downright disturbing in a John LeCarre way while still being some of the funniest literature I've ever read. The characters are still with me, and so is the chocolate.
Newest BFF is Julio Cortazar. I've only read one short book, "Diary of Andres Fava," but I am hungry for more.
