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And Her Smile Will Untether The Universe By Gwendolyn Kiste

March 25, 2018 by Bob Leave a Comment

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Gwendolyn Kiste has a wonderful way with words. In her hands they are beautiful and savage, comforting and terrifying, heart-wrenching and healing. And Her Smile Will Untether The Universe contains some true gems, tales thick with atmosphere and murky mood. “Evening settles softly on the orchard like black tar dripping from the sky” and later, […]

Filed Under: Book Review, Horror, Literary Fiction, Short Story Collection / Single Author, Supernatural Thriller Tagged With: dysfunctional families, lyrical prose, pain, poetry, twisted sisters

A Head Full Of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay

May 26, 2017 by Bob Leave a Comment

Paul Tremblay’s A Head Full Of Ghosts is a beautiful novel, a post-modern tale of demonic possession that leaves you questioning where truth lies in our surreal/unreal world. Publisher William Morrow sums up A Head Full Of Ghosts: The lives of the Barretts, a normal suburban New England family, are torn apart when fourteen-year-old Marjorie […]

Filed Under: Bestsellers, Book Review, Horror, Literary Fiction, Novels, Personal Favorites, Religious horror, Supernatural Thriller, Thriller Tagged With: demons, pop culture, possession, reality TV, sisters

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

August 30, 2015 by Bob Leave a Comment

 A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole is funny, wise, and as close to a perfect novel as you’re likely to find. Protagonist Ignatius C. Reilly is a bloated buffoon, a man-baby who lives with his mother, has a troubled digestive valve that causes him to burp and fart with great frequency, and possesses […]

Filed Under: Bestsellers, Book Review, Literary Fiction, Novels, Personal Favorites Tagged With: A Confederacy of Dunces, book review, comedy, farce, funny, John Kennedy Toole, love story, mother vs son, perfect novel, Pulitzer Prize, sadness

The Croning by Laird Barron

July 15, 2015 by Bob 1 Comment

Something amazing happens in Laird Barron’s The Croning. The hero saves the day simply by forgetting to act. He agrees to let his mind rot away (perhaps the most terrifying fate of all) while his witchy woman makes off with their newborn grandchild. That’s the happiest ending possible in this twisted tale that combines the legend […]

Filed Under: Book Review, Ebooks, Horror, Literary Fiction, Mystery / Suspense, Novels Tagged With: cosmic horror, folklore, hollow earth theory, HP Lovecraft, Laird Barron, legends, Rumplestilskin, secret satanic societies, space demons, The Croning, witches

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

May 25, 2015 by Bob Leave a Comment

 One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a slow literary slog. This 1967 novel, considered a landmark work of Latin American magical realist fiction, is a major drudge. It felt like it took me 100 years to read. I couldn’t find my way around the Buendia family tree and all its weird, gnarled branches. […]

Filed Under: Bestsellers, Literary Classics, Literary Fiction, Novels Tagged With: book review, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, history of Colombia, incest, One Hundred Years of Solitude, South America, surreal, weird

Bellefleur by Joyce Carol Oates

July 7, 2014 by Bob Leave a Comment

Reading Bellefleur by Joyce Carol Oates is like slipping into a fever dream. It’s all dark winter mood and brooding atmosphere in this novel.    Bellefleur covers three generations of the Bellefleur family over the course of more than 200 years. Ms. Oates builds this long, sprawling novel with long, sprawling sentences filled with parenthetical asides and a […]

Filed Under: Book Review, Literary Fiction, Novels, Supernatural Thriller Tagged With: Bellefleur, Gothic fiction, Joyce Carol Oates, spooky cat, strong women, weird family

Digitize Salinger and Other Literary Pursuits

April 15, 2014 by Bob 1 Comment

I was going through a “Why Didn’t I Read This in High School?” phase, and J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye was up next on my reading list. I was eager to download a copy of Salinger’s classic novel onto my Kindle. I’m a firm backer of the digital publishing revolution, since ebooks let […]

Filed Under: Ebooks, Literary Classics, Literary Fiction Tagged With: digital ban, digital literature, digitize classics, digitize Salinger, no Salinger ebooks, Salinger Estate

Hollywood by Charles Bukowski

February 22, 2014 by Bob Leave a Comment

Charles Bukowski‘s intrepid hero / alter ego Hank Chinaski is back in this funny satire of Tinsel Town in the late 1980s. Culled from his experience writing the screenplay for the film Barfly, Bukowski’s Hollywood rips into the shallowness of show business. The plot twists are so absurd, the characters so vapid and vain, they […]

Filed Under: Book Review, Literary Fiction, Novels Tagged With: Barfly, Charles Bukowski, drinking, Hollywood, novel, role of the writer, sanity of poetry, satire, screenplay, writing is bitching

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

February 10, 2014 by Bob Leave a Comment

I didn’t read John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men in high school; we read The Pearl instead — and I don’t remember much about it. I wanted to experience Of Mice and Men for myself, but I didn’t expect to be knocked on my ass by its raw power. As the father of a son […]

Filed Under: Bestsellers, Literary Classics, Literary Fiction, Novellas Tagged With: caregiver stress, dreams, John Steinbeck, loneliness, Of Mice and Men, pipe dreams, transmutation

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy

November 24, 2012 by Bob Leave a Comment

This novel doesn’t have the same bare-knuckled emotional wallop of The Road, but it still qualifies as a modern masterpiece. Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West is an old West cowboy novel, full of strange-yet-authentic language and characters. Like good concrete poetry, McCarthy’s work reflects the world he creates. A long ride […]

Filed Under: Literary Fiction, Personal Favorites Tagged With: Cormac McCarthy, old West cowboys, super villain, ultra-violence, ultra-violent

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