A Book A Week Challenge

[Alan]

hi dan, I'm interested in the book, and would be happy to post a review.

[Daniel]

Alan wrote: "hi dan, I'm interested in the book, and would be happy to post a review."

Hi Alan --

I just sent you a message via your raincoastimages.ca website, containing your claim code for the audiobook. (For some reason, the Goodreads interfaces were not allowing me to send you a personal message within Goodreads -- oh well!)

I hope you enjoy the audiobook!

[Zoe]

Now up on the blog:

reviews of A Floating Life, The Mistress of Spices, Ceremony, Last Summer at Mars Hill, The Magic Barrel, Forged in Grace.

all on http://www.magic-realism.net

[Zoe]

Latest reviews on the blog are for Pedro Páramo, The Icarus Girl, Missing in Machu Picchu, Spirits of the Ordinary: A Tale of Casas Grandes and Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands

[Zoe]

The following are now reviewed on http://magic-realism-books.blogspot.com:
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler,
Quin's Shanghai Circus,
Dandelion Wine
The Blue Fox

[Zoe]

Sorry for the delay in posting but the following are now up on http://magic-realism-books.blogspot.com:
The Finno-Ugrian Vampire
Weaving Water
The Thin Place
The Wishing Thread
Rising Up
Stonefly
The People of Paper
The Invisible MountainDeath with Interruptions

[Zoe]

To bring you up-to-date with reviews on the Magic Realism Books blog http://magic-realism-books.blogspot.com:

From the Kitchen of Half Truth
The Sinistra Zone
If I Told You Once
The Long White Sickness
Diving Belles
Kabu Kabu
Lungs Full of Noise

What is really great is that increasingly I am getting preview copies to read from publishers and authors. All of which means my knowledge of magic realism writers is getting bigger all the time.

[Zoe]

Growing Up Golem: How I Survived My Mother, Brooklyn, and Some Really Bad Dates - magic realism memoir!
The Track To Bralgu
The Woman in the Dunes
Netsuke Nation: Tales from Another Japan
I Heard the Owl Call My NameThe Dedalus Meyrink Reader

All are on the Magic Realism Books blog http://magic-realism-books.blogspot.com I will also put them up here on Goodreads shortly

[Zoe]

Here are the new reviews on the magic realism blog

The Lieutenant of San Porfirio
the piece that began magic realism The Kingdom of This World
Moscow But Dreaming
Solstice Magic

http://magic-realism-books.blogspot.com

[Zoe]

Some more reviews

House of Purple Cedar
Culloo
The Taste of Apple Seeds
Butterfly Winter
Could It Be Magic?
Sisterland
The Night Guest
Watering Heaven
The Book Thief (not magic realism in my opinion but regularly appears of magic realism books)

I review at least one magic realism book a week on my blog http://magic-realism-books.blogspot.com I do copy the reviews on to Goodreads but there is often a timelag

[Zoe]

Here are the latest reviews on the blog (all at http://magic-realism-books.blogspot.com)

Keeping Bedlam at Bay in the Prague Cafe
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
Incendiary Girls: Stories
The House at the End of Hope Street
The Sorcerer's Apprentice: Tales and Conjurations
Under the Frangipani
Red Now and Laters
Big Fish
Burning Angel

[Zoe]

An update on the books reviewed on http://magic-realism-books.blogspot.com
Among Others
The Search for Heinrich SchlogelLuano's Luckiest Day
The Master and Margarita
Chorus Of Mushrooms
The Grass Dancer
Invisible Beasts
Magic for Beginners
Saffron and Brimstone: Strange Stories
So Far from God
Time of the Locust
St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
Skellig
Things Invisible To See
The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories, Volume One: Where on Earth
The President's Hat
The Museum of Extraordinary Things

[Zoe]

It's been several months since I updated this thread.

Here are the books I have reviewed on the Magic Realism Books Blog since September. http://magic-realism-books.blogspot.com
The Wilds
Sombrero Fallout
By Light We Knew Our Names
Neuri Shape-Shifter
Monkey Beach
The Vet's Daughter: A Virago Modern Classic
Seventh Heaven
The Red Magician
On The Golden Porch
The Night Garden
The Luminous Heart of Jonah S.
The Complete Cosmicomics
The Dress Shop of Dreams5279]
Larque on the Wing
The Palm-Wine Drinkard
Weetzie Bat
When Rosa Came Home
Berta La Larga

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