A quiet interior. Almost too quiet around the violence for these Western contemporary (or just white male) sensibilities.
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janson reviewed Woman Running in the Mountains by Lauren Groff
Alone at dawn, in the heat of midsummer, a young woman named Takiko Odaka departs …
Review of 'Woman Running in the Mountains' on 'Storygraph'
4 stars
A quiet interior. Almost too quiet around the violence for these Western contemporary (or just white male) sensibilities.
janson reviewed Big Swiss by Jen Beagin
Review of 'Big Swiss' on 'Storygraph'
4 stars
Quite liked it, if OIttessa Moshfegh had a bit more humor.
Quite liked it, if OIttessa Moshfegh had a bit more humor.
janson reviewed Maddalena and the Dark by Julia Fine
Review of 'Maddalena and the Dark' on 'Storygraph'
4 stars
Begun with so much omen, but ultimately fell soft and too shallow.
Begun with so much omen, but ultimately fell soft and too shallow.
janson reviewed The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin (Earthsea Cycle, #3)
Book Three of Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea Cycle. Darkness threatens to overtake Earthsea: the …
Review of 'The Farthest Shore' on 'Storygraph'
5 stars
So sparing with every word choice, yet soaring in the depths of world and emotion. Le Guin is a master.
So sparing with every word choice, yet soaring in the depths of world and emotion. Le Guin is a master.
janson reviewed I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai
Literary mystery
Review of 'I Have Some Questions for You' on 'Storygraph'
4 stars
I’m hooked on her writing style, but I don’t love it yah know? Punchy and kaleidoscopic, of the whodunnit or fantasy ilk, yet on topics pointed and blunt.
I’m hooked on her writing style, but I don’t love it yah know? Punchy and kaleidoscopic, of the whodunnit or fantasy ilk, yet on topics pointed and blunt.
janson reviewed Bliss Montage by Ling Ma
What happens when fantasy tears through the screen of the everyday to wake us up? …
Review of 'Bliss Montage' on 'Storygraph'
4 stars
If Murakami met Munro.
If Murakami met Munro.
janson reviewed In Concrete by Emma Ramadan
Review of 'In Concrete' on 'Storygraph'
4 stars
Play full of spades, transliterated and alliterated and punned through to the other side I still wonder what’s blocked off despite Emma Ramadan’s precise trowel.
Still, a delightful mouthfeel.
Play full of spades, transliterated and alliterated and punned through to the other side I still wonder what’s blocked off despite Emma Ramadan’s precise trowel.
Still, a delightful mouthfeel.
Still, a delightful mouthfeel.
janson reviewed Nadja by André Breton
Review of 'Nadja' on 'Storygraph'
2 stars
DNF. Picked up to read along with another (Either/Or by Bautman) but ended up skimming really. Would likely enjoy if reading as part of a group, but alas.
DNF. Picked up to read along with another (Either/Or by Bautman) but ended up skimming really. Would likely enjoy if reading as part of a group, but alas.
janson reviewed The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer
Review of 'The Conservationist' on 'Storygraph'
2 stars
DNF. I just don’t care at all about the characters. And the writing isn’t enough to keep me within.
DNF. I just don’t care at all about the characters. And the writing isn’t enough to keep me within.
janson reviewed A good man is hard to find, and other stories by Flannery O'Connor (An HBJ modern classic)
The collection that established O’Connor’s reputation as one of the American masters of the short …
Review of 'A good man is hard to find, and other stories' on 'Storygraph'
2 stars
I suppose it’s skilled, in a revealing sort of way. But I just don’t care to read of racist characters penned by a racist author.
I suppose it’s skilled, in a revealing sort of way. But I just don’t care to read of racist characters penned by a racist author.
janson rated Drinking coffee elsewhere: 4 stars
janson reviewed Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
Review of 'Prime of Miss Jean Brodie' on 'Storygraph'
3 stars
Good, but not quite really so. Perhaps too slight for me to savor beyond frivolity.
Good, but not quite really so. Perhaps too slight for me to savor beyond frivolity.
janson reviewed All This Could Be Different by Sarah Thankam Mathews
Review of 'All This Could Be Different' on 'Storygraph'
4 stars
Blend of other and the familiar, good without tipping great, the flat at the end couldn’t detract from my bitter joy.
Blend of other and the familiar, good without tipping great, the flat at the end couldn’t detract from my bitter joy.
janson reviewed The Woman Destroyed by Simone de Beauvoir (Pantheon modern writers)
Review of 'The Woman Destroyed' on 'Storygraph'
4 stars
Not perfectly for this reader, given shrugged elusion of the stream style in the second piece. Still, the rest was masterful and I had to keep reminding myself it wasn’t contemporary.
Not perfectly for this reader, given shrugged elusion of the stream style in the second piece. Still, the rest was masterful and I had to keep reminding myself it wasn’t contemporary.