Harem Scarem in El Cerrito by Neva Calvert Carpenter

Next up, 'The Sky in the Glass-Topped Table' which uses as its title an unimportant image. I'm going to skip most of the stories and stick with the ones like 'Rink Girl' that have frittered merit. He's like, 'Hhhhhh! This is taking for ever! Here, hang on. And then? At the end? Instead of completing the story, Brazaitis cops out. The plot is understated but compelling and important-to the characters and thus to us, the readers. The teenagers, their relationships, their inner and outer lives. It's brilliantly written-beautiful stuff, really. The first story, for instance, 'The Rink Girl' by Mark Brazaitis. The big problem with the fiction in this issue is stories that do not end. However, this issue is pretty much everything I hinted at not liking last time. But I have finally figured out where to read them (some things get read walking to work, some in bed, some on the toilet-ends up Ploughshares is one of the latter) so I may get through all the ones hanging around. So, yeah, I'm definitely not reading these in order. about nine daysĠ06) Cardboard by Doug TenNaple, finished January 15Įxciting and vibrant and fresh and loaded with dumb moments that, in the final analysis, don't damage the kid in you's enjoyment.

I'm suddenly curious about those weirdos with the money and cultivated landscapes. I'm as descended from William Bradford as the next guy, but none of my close blood's ever attended Harvard or been fictionalized in a Wall Street greedfest film.

This is the latest bit of art ( this was the first) that's sent me thinking about 'WASP culture.' I had always thought WASP was supposed to be generic white Anglo American, but I'm realizing it's something much more precise (and moneyed) than that. I would love to know Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho lead was influenced by a character from this series. Although one aspect of the mystery was obvious to me long before it was obvious to the dick, I didn't see how it resulted in the mystery's solution until the very end. The mystery itself was nice and intricate. I quite liked it, even though all the female good guys are drop dead gorgeous and all the male good guys are drop dead gorgeous and even though the jokes pound and pound and pound until you die from the lack of blood. The boys, apparently at random, picked this book our for me from Barnes and Noble as a Christmas present. 007) Drop Shot by Harlan Coben, finished January 18

Harem Scarem in El Cerrito by Neva Calvert Carpenter