Entries Tagged as 'staff pick'

Living and Loving by the Book: Zevin’s THE STORIED LIFE OF A. J. FIKRY

March 31st, 2014 · No Comments · Uncategorized

He looks across the spines, which are, for the most part, black and red with all capitalized fonts in silvers and whites. An occasional burst of fluorescence breaks up the monotony. A. J. thinks how similar everything [looks]. Why is any one book different from any other book? They are different, A. J. decides, because they […]

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The Word Smith – Ali Smith and There But For The

July 22nd, 2013 · No Comments · Uncategorized

How to describe Ali Smith’s There But For The? For me, the trick to describing or defining Ali Smith’s writing is simply not to. It’s more fruitful and pleasurable to just sit back, accept her simply but dynamically drawn characters, let the language and wordplay wash over you, then in the end enjoy the slightly […]

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