Jenna Le
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As with The Honjin Murders, I couldn't find fault with the ingenuity of the "how" (i.e., the mechanics of the crime), but I found the "why" (i.e., the motive) to be severely lacking. Rather than provide one good plausible motive, the narrative instea ...more | |
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I've lately been occupied in reading these poems aloud to a friend of mine who is a baby (having friends who are babies is an excellent excuse for reading books aloud without feeling silly about it), and the act of reading them aloud makes me aware i ...more | |
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Ahl's latest book explores the grief surrounding the deaths of a father, a student, and several friends, while also grappling with firsthand experience of illness and the age-related stumbles of the poet's own body. This may sound like dark fare, but ...more | |
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"In my judgment, what the world stigmatises as romantic is often more nearly allied to the truth than is commonly supposed." It is interesting to think of Helen's courtship story -- which takes place in 1821, i.e., during the reign of George IV -- as ...more |
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This novella is a fun, quick, easy read, buoyed along the surface of its reader's mind by the wicked effervescent wit for which its author is famous, though it lacks the depth of characterization, the heart, and the pith of moral gravity that make Au ...more | |
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One thing I love about Charlotte Bronte is that, in her novels, dialogue doesn't merely communicate information or advance plot: it's also a source of delicious pleasure in and of itself, thrillingly charged with the crackling electrical energy of fl ...more | |
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"Everything was salvaged, some by the right hands and some by the wrong, but nothing was simply lost." A formidably surefooted evocation of three characters living in joyful equilibrium for the duration of one summer: a young girl, an old woman, and a ...more |
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This novella, almost a short story really, is a tightly focused portrayal of a man facing a moral dilemma, set at Christmastime in an economically pinched town in 1980s Ireland. There is a fair amount at stake, a fair amount that stands to be lost, n ...more | |
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"I regret that I have not the talents of a thief. Should these not, in fact, enter into the education of a man who is mixed up in intrigues? Would it not be agreeable to filch the letter or the portrait of a rival, or to pick from the pockets of a...more |
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Here is the blurb I wrote for this chapbook: This collection of poems about a cancer patient’s journey vividly conjures the universal anxieties of the human condition as it confronts the simultaneous crises of bodily frailty and ecological precarity. ...more |
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