6/12/2023 0 Comments We need to talk about kevin novel![]() ![]() Shriver tackles it with admirable panache, turning a sensational story into a troubling one.” - Wall Street Journal I got an easy one, but it's not too difficult to imagine being in way over my head with a more challenging kid." Only once I was a parent did I truly realize how little control we have over our kids' temperaments. ![]() Nurture" reading kick lately, and while this novel doesn't answer the (unanswerable) question, it certainly gives a lot of thought-provoking material for contemplation. Set following a Columbine-like massacre, the narrator is the killer's mother, reflecting back over his childhood and trying to understand why and whether it was her fault. If I hadn't stayed up late reading it, I think I would have been up anyway hiding under the covers. ![]() "OMG this was can't-put-down good, but so creepy and disturbing. Uneasy with the sacrifices and social demotion of motherhood from the start, Eva fears that her alarming dislike for her own son may be responsible for driving him so nihilistically off the rails. Now, two years later, it is time for her to come to terms with marriage, career, family, parenthood, and Kevin’s horrific rampage, in a series of startlingly direct correspondences with her estranged husband, Franklin. Eva never really wanted to be a mother-and certainly not the mother of a boy who ends up murdering seven of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker, and a much-adored teacher who tried to befriend him, all two days before his sixteenth birthday. ![]()
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Timothy Freke, co author of The Laughing Jesus "Superb characterization, a brilliant visual palette, and thorough scholarship. "Highly original and highly engaging, The Secret Magdalene is a sweeping yet intimate tale, an emotional and intellectual journey that questions everything, including the real nature of Jesus." India Edghill, author of Wisdom's Daughter "In The Secret Magdalene Ki Longfellow portrays Jesus and Mary Magdalene of the Gnostic Gospel tradition-two great teachers whose friendship blossoms within the political turmoil of first century Palestine. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments Atocha station ben lerner![]() ![]() ![]() Neither is autobiographical in any straightforward sense: 10:04 focuses on a single man’s plan to get a platonic friend pregnant, while the real Lerner had been happily married for years. ![]() ![]() Leaving the Atocha Station (2011) features a callow American poet lounging around Madrid on a Fulbright scholarship (as Lerner once did) 10:04 (2014) incorporates some of Lerner’s art criticism and a magazine story he published, and opens with the narrator and his agent celebrating the “strong six figure” advance he’s received for the novel you’re reading. Lerner turned to fiction only after publishing three volumes of poetry (the second, Angle of Yaw, got him shortlisted for a National book award in 2006), and his novels share a disarming, conversational tone, a taste for collage, and a playful attitude to the line between life and art – a line poets have never been called on to respect. We had met to discuss his new book, The Topeka School, the third and most intricate in his acclaimed trilogy of novels featuring a Lerner-like character named Adam Gordon, and yet it wasn’t easy to tell who was interviewing whom. W andering around a Vija Celmins retrospective at the Met Breuer gallery in Manhattan with the poet-turned-novelist Ben Lerner, I sensed that I had walked into a trap. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Locked Room: A Mystery (Ruth Galloway Mysteries #14) (Paperback): The Night Hawks: A Mystery (Ruth Galloway Mysteries #13) (Paperback): The Lantern Men: A Mystery (Ruth Galloway Mysteries #12) (Paperback): The Stone Circle: A Mystery (Ruth Galloway Mysteries #11) (Paperback): ![]() The Dark Angel: A Mystery (Ruth Galloway Mysteries #10) (Paperback): The Chalk Pit: A Mystery (Ruth Galloway Mysteries #9) (Paperback): The Woman In Blue: A Mystery (Ruth Galloway Mysteries #8) (Paperback): The Ghost Fields: A Mystery (Ruth Galloway Mysteries #7) (Paperback): ![]() The Outcast Dead: A Mystery (Ruth Galloway Mysteries #6) (Paperback): The House At Sea's End: A Mystery (Ruth Galloway Mysteries #3) (Paperback):Ī Room Full Of Bones: A Ruth Galloway Mystery (Ruth Galloway Mysteries #4) (Paperback):Ī Dying Fall: A Mystery (Ruth Galloway Mysteries #5) (Paperback): The Janus Stone: A Mystery (Ruth Galloway Mysteries #2) (Paperback): The Crossing Places: The First Ruth Galloway Mystery (Ruth Galloway Mysteries #1) (Paperback): ![]() ![]() Do you see?” The tensions between Ganga and her own mother are made obvious a few pages in. So you must love me double, triple, quadruple hard. Pressured into perfection by her unpredictable mother “Only you to love me. Written from the confines of her jail cell, the protagonist Ganga sets an ominous tone that continues throughout the novel, talking about, but not revealing her crime, and stating how it is impossible to succeed at motherhood. Set in the idyllic hill country of Sri Lanka, Nayomi Munaweera does a fantastic job of slowly introducing undercurrents of terror to her readers, revealing cracks in what, at first, appears to be a perfect childhood. ![]() What Lies Between Us is a novel that will have you clutching its pages, rapidly skimming through the words to find out what is to come. ![]() A gripping tale of one woman’s slow descent into madness which causes her to commit one terrible act. ![]() |