The Man Who Thought Himself a Woman and Other Queer Nineteenth-Century Short Stories
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"Perhaps it is no coincidence that the nineteenth century-the century when, it has been said,...
Contemporary Central American Fiction: Gender, Subjectivity and Affect
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This book is a series of original, critical meditations on short stories and novels from Central...
Dakota and the American Dream
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When ten-year-old Dakota becomes bored sitting next to his mother on a park bench, he drifts off and...
Resistance Women
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker, an enthralling historical...
ClareR (5726 KP) rated The sentence in Books
May 1, 2022
The Sentence is, amongst other things, a book about books. It’s also a book about Tookie, who works in a bookshop and is haunted by a deceased customer. Tookie has a colourful past, which involves imprisonment after it was discovered she had smuggled drugs over county lines, strapped to the corpse of a friends boyfriend. She didn’t know about the drugs, but she certainly knew about the dead body! Prison gave her plenty of time to read, and she leaves prison with a huge knowledge of literature.
On release Tookie gets a job in a Native American bookshop, and marries the Police officer who arrested her. Like her, he is also Native American.
This is a book of two halves: before and during the Covid-19 pandemic. The ghost of the customer, Flora, remains in the bookshop for most of the book, whilst Minneapolis sees a lot of important things going on: the death of George Floyd, Black Lives Matter marches, the Covid-19 epidemic, isolation from friends and family, illness, near death experiences and the importance of heritage.
I loved this book. Like I’ve said, I’m just glad that I won’t have to decide the Women’s Prize winner. I still have some books to read from the long list, which I still want to read even though the shortlist has been announced - so watch this space!
Conversations with Edmund White
Will Brantley and Nancy McGuire Roche
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Conversations with Edmund White brings together twenty-one interviews with an author known for...
The Outsider
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'My mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don't know.' In The Outsider (1942), his classic...
First Principles
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Ricks knocks it out of the park with this jewel of a book. On every page I learned something new....
The Letters of Robert Frost, Volume Two
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The Letters of Robert Frost, Volume 2: 1920-1928 is the second installment of Harvard's five-volume...
The Horror! The Horror!: Comic Books the Government Didn't Want You to Read!
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For the first time in over fifty years, author Jim Trombetta uncovers a rare visual treasury of some...