Daily Archives: Saturday, 2 February 2008
Amy and Isabelle
by Elizabeth Strout Continuing the recent trend of reading books about mother-daughter relationships, I picked up Amy and Isabelle because I liked the cadence of the title, and found myself in a slow novel, not in the plodding sense of the word, but in the sense that this was a story of gradual emergence. The … Continue reading
Categories: Authors P-T, Fiction
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Home from the Vinyl Cafe
by Stuart McLean This book is subtitled “A Year of Stories,” so I knew that it would be short stories and vignettes, which makes it an excellent bathroom book, incidentally, but when I read the blurb on the back and it mentioned that Dave owned a record store, I was expecting at least something involving … Continue reading
Categories: Authors K-O
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