For The Book Obsessed
[ad_1] Over the past few months, most of us have felt our plans for the future slip out of reach. Perhaps, like me, you too have been gripped by anxiety over what the future holds. This sense of uncertainty underpins everything in Life Events, the latest book from Karolina Waclawiak. The book follows Evelyn, a … Read more
[ad_1] I’m not sure if books have the power to change minds, let alone the world. Nor do I buy into the power of books or other forms of entertainment as primarily escapist ventures, means of avoiding the world around you and its harsh realities. In fact, it’s often in illuminating the harshness of life … Read more
[ad_1] In Fracture, Spanish-Argentine writer Andrés Neuman manages to merge disaster, memory, and distance into a single cohesive map. Tracing the flow of time, tragedies both individual and global, and our memories of what occurred, Neuman leads us into the lives and loves of his characters, filling in the gaps between one character’s memories with … Read more
[ad_1] It’s Japan, right around 1990. Three college guys go to meet three college girls at a small diner. One, named Ryusei, becomes smitten with a girl named Miwako. The two begin spending lots of time together, mostly reading. No matter how close they get, she refuses to go on an official date with him, … Read more
[ad_1] Shaun Prescott’s The Town is meta from the start. It concerns a wannabe writer who has taken up residence in a desolate town in the Australian Outback, with the intent to write a book on what he calls the “disappearing towns” of the region. To the writer, who also serves as narrator to the … Read more
[ad_1] Jac Jemc, author of the story collection False Bingo from MCD x FSG, was a writer from the start. She told her third-grade teacher her goal was to write a one-hundred page story; a goal she’s now surpassed many times over. While Jemc is most known for her speculative and horror work, due in … Read more