Want to escape temporarily from news stories about the carnage in Ukraine, the originalist black hole of the Supreme Court, accelerating inflation and the toxic swill of MAGAism? Here are four novels with the potential to take you away from it all. The Rent Collector by Camron Wright is a gift for lovers of literature, …
Tag: fiction recommendations
Books to consider, pt. 3 – more fiction
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead. The author of The Underground Railroad has done it again, this time with a story of a prison-like reform school in Florida. Worse-than-Dickensian abuse occurred throughout this narrative, based on the real-life revelation five years ago about the Dozier School for Boys in the Florida panhandle town of Marianna. …
Books to consider, pt. 2- fiction
Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout. If you enjoyed Strout’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Olive Kitteridge , you will love reading Olive, Again, the sequel. Oh, to be able to write like Elizabeth Strout! Olive is sui generis……..except I find in myself an occasional alarming similarity to some of her traits. There’s still her craggy, occasionally harsh humor, …
Fiction suggestions, as promised
Regular readers of my blog have expressed their displeasure that, when I wrote my last blog on non-fiction books, I promised a follow-up blog with my recent adventures in fiction but failed to do so. In the spirit of some unnamed Virginia politicians, I apologize for the lapse and humbly offer the following. The Orphan …
Marjorie Arons-Barron 