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Book Review Time: Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
A Journal Entry Regarding Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go… ~ Ishiguro’s work haunts me. Most novels I can read and quickly process. His work is different He is methodical.He rations information. He presents that which is unsettling, in a calm, matter of fact manner, which results in a feeling of ever-increasing unease.But he…
Book Review Time; Kin, Tayari Jones
It is the American South. The 1960s. Jim Crow segregation is at its height. Vernice and Annie are from a small country town in Louisiana, called Honeysuckle. They’ve known each other their whole lives. Friends from the cradle. And they share a very specific sense of loss. They are motherless children. Vernice, nicknamed Niecy, loses…
Book Review Time: Jazz, Toni Morrison
It starts with a tragedy. A 17 year old girl struck down.Her married older lover holds the gun. At the funeral, the scorned wife arrives.Her focus is singular. With knife in hand, she seeks revenge on the dead. What follows is an exploration of these three characters, inextricably linked… By marital and extramarital vows.By tragic…