I chose Swamplandia! for a couple of reasons, one of which was the New York Times review, which noted that the author had “honed her elegant verbal wit and fused it with the nightmare logic that makes Swamplandia! such an eccentric yet revelatory family story.” Continue reading
So – as we look towards a couple of months of dark, cold, probably wet and/or icy days, let’s get a little lost in a nice, shiny, new novel that takes place in Florida (Unofficial Motto: The Sun-Damaged Décolletage State). Continue reading
Lord knows I love a good novel, and even a sensational one, and there is something I think almost organically compelling about a tale of captivity and redemption – the more sordid, the better. Well, this wasn’t sordid, and that’s okay. It did stock some nice surprises. Continue reading
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