Rabbit Island, Elvira Navarro
Combining the gritty surrealism of David Lynch with the explosive interior meditations of Clarice Lispector, the stories in Elvira Navarro’s … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Animals
Forest World, Margarita Engle
Middle Grade Fiction Reviewed by Kimberly Christensen Edver and his mother left Cuba when he was just a baby. His … Continue reading →
Indie Corner – Ian Boyd and Gary Luck
Back to the Indie Corner series I was happy to meet Ian Boyd and Gary Luck by way of their … Continue reading →
Sky Dance, John D. Burns
Full title: Sky Dance: Fighting for the Wild in the Scottish Highlands In his first two bestselling books, The Last … Continue reading →
Talking Animals, Joni Murphy
In this novel, at last, nature kvetches and grieves, while talking animals offer us a kind of solace in the … Continue reading →
Where the Oceans Hide their Dead, John Yunker
Click here to return to the series The global novel exists, not as a genre separated from and opposed to … Continue reading →
A Peculiar Peril, Jeff VanderMeer
Jonathan Lambshead stands to inherit his deceased grandfather’s overstuffed mansion—a veritable cabinet of curiosities–once he and two schoolmates catalog its … Continue reading →
The Suicide Season, Jeremy Gadd
Click here to return to the series The global novel exists, not as a genre separated from and opposed to … Continue reading →
Song for a Whale, Lynne Kelly
Reviewed by Kimberly Christensen Song for a Whale by Lynne Kelly Middle Grade Fiction Sometimes a book just stops you … Continue reading →
Split Tooth, Tanya Taqaq
This book is being read and discussed at the Cambridge Ecofiction Bookclub in January 2020. According to Goodreads, Veering back … Continue reading →