Milo and the Calf

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    The Passage by Justin Cronin

    The Passage Justin Cronin The Passage is a seven hundred page vampire novel written by a novelist who graduated from the Iowa Writers Workshop. That makes it a pretty rare bird. It is also a book I enjoyed tremendously. I imagine there is very little middle ground with this book. You either enjoy its epic…

  • Review: Zimler’s The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon

    The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon Richard Zimler Murder mystery set among the Jewish community of Lisbon at the time they were being forced into exile. Good for the pop history of the Jews of Lisbon, but sub-par as a murder mystery. The scene of a community being torn apart and murdered because of antisemitism is…

  • Review: Feinberg’s Stone Butch Blues

    Stone Butch Blues: A Novel Leslie Feinberg This novel/memoir chronicles the world of a working class lesbian, gay, and transgendered people in New York from the days before Stonewall to the early nineties. It is a classic and was at the time it came out the most important book written to date on transgender issues.…

  • Review: Defoe’s Moll Flanders

    Moll Flanders: The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders (Penguin Classics) Daniel Defoe Moll Flanders is a bleak read. Everyone is pretty fucking awful. Moll herself can be read in numerous ways. She is a conniving, evil, women, brought low by her sins (this is arguably the way Defoe meant to portray her).…

  • Review: Sebold’s The Lovely Bones

    The Lovely Bones Alice Sebold The plot of this one (young girl narrates her life and murder from heaven) put me off when I first heard it but, when many smart friends read, and loved it, I decided to give it a go. I am really glad I did. Seabold walks a fine line between…

  • Review: Robinson’s Gilead

    Gilead: A Novel Marilynne Robinson On the surface, this book should not have appealed to me at all. The story of the domestic life of a small town minister in the mid-west, it has nothing of interest to me (besides some references to John Brown). But Gilead is one of the most highly realized and…