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maribouWild Grass is about people fighting for change in China, and about the ongoing human rights abuses, but it's extremely narrative in style and spends a lot of time on 3 individuals instead of being some sort of huge manifesto. The writing is lovely and delicate with just a very occasional touch of sarcasm, and the content is extremely important.
(90/200)
There are some really good stories in Year's Best Fantasy 3 and hardly any unremarkable ones. Now that The Year's Best Annual Fantasy and Horror is coming to a close, it's good to know that there's another good one up and coming. I'll miss those amazingly detailed year-in-review essays that Windling and Datlow did though.
(91/200)
Second Spring by Andrew Greeley. I go back and forth on whether or not Andrew Greeley is a good fiction writer (I'm quite convinced he's a good non-fiction writer). Be that as it may, he's a wonderful storyteller. And his stories spill forth joy the way stained glass windows spill forth light, which is more than enough reason to read anybody.
(92/200)
Goat: A Memoir by Brad Land. I listened to this on audiobook, and I think it was just too graphic or something for that venue (it talks about frat hazing and the like) because I found myself withdrawing from it. That said, it's a very moving and eloquent little book, about stuff it's all too easy to pretend doesn't happen anymore.
(93/200)
(90/200)
There are some really good stories in Year's Best Fantasy 3 and hardly any unremarkable ones. Now that The Year's Best Annual Fantasy and Horror is coming to a close, it's good to know that there's another good one up and coming. I'll miss those amazingly detailed year-in-review essays that Windling and Datlow did though.
(91/200)
Second Spring by Andrew Greeley. I go back and forth on whether or not Andrew Greeley is a good fiction writer (I'm quite convinced he's a good non-fiction writer). Be that as it may, he's a wonderful storyteller. And his stories spill forth joy the way stained glass windows spill forth light, which is more than enough reason to read anybody.
(92/200)
Goat: A Memoir by Brad Land. I listened to this on audiobook, and I think it was just too graphic or something for that venue (it talks about frat hazing and the like) because I found myself withdrawing from it. That said, it's a very moving and eloquent little book, about stuff it's all too easy to pretend doesn't happen anymore.
(93/200)
