I'm republishing a series of pieces that I wrote for the now-defunct Juniper Bends Author Collective. Since I can safely assume that none of my readers are big enough fans to take issue with this--much less to notice--I have few qualms about this course of action. The joke goes that genre only exists so that… Continue reading Genre
Tag: Hybrid Genre
Bone
The Bone People by Keri Hulme My rating: 5 of 5 stars Still probably the most overwhelming and spectacular novel I can conjure up. The prose is sometimes whimsical, sometimes bizarre, but always breathtaking. Hulme stirs up the overlays of dreams, fantasies, ghostworlds, violence, and healing in this massive, indomitable novel. A must for hybrid… Continue reading Bone
Review
Just wrote a really mean review of Alison Bechdel's latest book on Goodreads. I feel kind of bad. I'm sharing it here anyway. Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel My rating: 2 of 5 stars Very sad to give two stars to Alison Bechdel's anything, but this book was tedium incarnate. Things to keep:… Continue reading Review