Nathan Brown already has an illustrious career as a non-fiction and editorial writer whose work ranges from thought-provoking to iconoclastic. Nemesis Train is his first foray into fiction, and it explores (among other ideas) one person’s potential to make a difference in a world of hurting people.
In this novel, that world is represented by seven [...]
Entries from October 2008
October 31, 2008
Nemesis Train, by Nathan Brown
October 30, 2008
Come Away: Song of Songs, by Anne Hines
This is an interesting concept — a book about how the Song of Songs came to be written. It’s not the traditional story: the book is not viewed as a love song written by or about King Solomon. Rather, it’s a celebration of feminine sexuality and spirituality tucked in between the severe and masculine prophets [...]
October 15, 2008
Wit’s End, by Karen Joy Fowler
Karen Joy Fowler is probably best known for her previous book, the extremely popular The Jane Austen Book Club. I read that book and enjoyed it, but it didn’t really capture my imagination and I didn’t have the urge to reread it, nor did I feel the need to go see the movie when it [...]
October 5, 2008
Stardust, by Neil Gaiman
Everybody loves Neil Gaiman, don’t they? At least that’s what I find. Avid readers speak of his brand of offbeat fantasy, both in traditional-type books and graphic novels, in tones of hushed awe and reverence.
It was probably a mistake that the first Gaiman book I picked up was American Gods. This was in my pre-Compulsive-Overreader-blogging days, [...]
