Monday, March 16th, 2009
Returning My Sister’s Face and Other Far Eastern Tales of Whimsy and Malice, by Eugie Foster
Eugie Foster is a Chinese-American writer; she was born in the Midwest (Urbana, IL) but escaped down south (Atlanta) and refuses to return. (After this winter, I can see why.) She writes columns on how to write for YAs, a pursuit I applaud, and is one of the directors of Dragon*Con. She’s also the managing [...]
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Friday, March 13th, 2009
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie
Sherman Alexie is of Spokane/Coeur d’Alene heritage; he was born on the Spokane reservation in Washington and had hydrocephalus when he was a kid. He attended the local white high school and played basketball before going to Gonzaga and Washington State University. A B.A. in American Studies later, he started writing poetry, and then novels, [...]
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Monday, March 9th, 2009
Crystal Rain, by Tobias Buckell
Tobias Buckell was born on Grenada; he is of mixed racial heritage. He moved to the U.S. right before he started college, and attended Bluffton College, located in middle-of-nowhere, Ohio. (I can say that because my father was born there.) He still lives in Bluffton, Ohio, and complains about its land-lockedness. (I’m pretty sure he [...]
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Sunday, December 7th, 2008
One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gabriel Garcia Marquez won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982. He is considered one of the pioneers of the ‘magic realism’ movement, a subset of postmodernism that concerns itself chiefly with telling things that are true, even if they aren’t necessarily ‘real.’ He writes epic stories; this novel spans at least a hundred years, [...]
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
Private Arrangements, by Sherry Thomas
This is not the usual kind of book that I review on this website, and I feel I must disclose that I won this book in a contest on Dear Author. The condition of the winning is that I read it and promote it somehow on its release date, which is today. The conditions, of [...]