On the eve of Occupy Wall Street, C is broke. Once a renowned artist, she’s now divorced, alone, stuck with a stack of bills, a new erotic interest in her oldest girlfriend, and a persistent hallucination in the form of a gnome. Darkly funny and uncannily percipient, The Visitors counts down the last days of our digital age toward a strange climax.| And Other Stories
When Cathy of 746 books announced last year that she would not host 20 Books of Summer this year after ten successful years, Emma of Words and Peace and I both volunteered to take it on. Summer rea…| AnnaBookBel
Don Mee Choi’s Hardly War arrived earlier this year as part of my And Other Stories subscription. It is categorised by the publisher as poetry, but it is more than a down the line collection …| What I Think About When I Think About Reading
We’ve had a hot couple of weeks in Manchester. It has felt like summer and the cover of Adam S Leslie’s Lost in the Garden called to me from Book Mountain. I wanted an adventure that wo…| What I Think About When I Think About Reading
Jessi Jezewska Stevens’ novel The Visitors follows a former textile artist turned art supply seller, known only as C, as she navigates keeping her business afloat, repaying her medical debt, …| What I Think About When I Think About Reading
It is 1982 and Swanna Swain is 14 years old. Her parents, both academics in their forties, both having a midlife crisis, have separated. They send Swanna and her younger brother Madding to summer c…| What I Think About When I Think About Reading
Revolution in the Head is touted as an indispensable Beatles book, a masterpiece and an astonishing achievement of pop criticism and scholarship. The edition that I read is the 1998 update that inc…| What I Think About When I Think About Reading
