Minimize Considered makes us aware of place and its effects, as well as nuances of relationships. The poems show us not only our cities but also creatures of the natural world still found there, as for example a pair of coyotes spotted in an outer borough of New York City. The poet leads us to…
Category: Book Reviews
Book Review – In the Days of Rain
Cults—something readers associate with the barren countryside of America, lonely families tucked deep in the woods, cut off from all other civilisation. Yet Rebecca Stott’s wonderful creative non-fiction, In the Days of Rain, shows us that the reality is far from our shared perceptions. She takes us into the intricate and hidden world of an…
Book Review – The Hate U Give
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas is one book that can easily be tagged as “The need of the hour”. It tells us a very important story with a tender and poignant voice. There are many things we tend to take for granted in life, and this moving portrayal of #Blacklivesmatter actually shows the…
Book Review – Siren
Siren, Kateri Lanthier, Signal Editions, 2017 In Greek mythology, sirens are dangerous creatures that often use their enchanting voice, and song to lure in sailors. Generally, sirens are considered to be women but also, in different mythologies, part bird in association to their bewitching voices and figures. Sirens are beautiful and charming, but also dangerous…
Book Review – Too Like the Lightning
Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer Perhaps the greatest pull of Too Like the Lightning is its glorious break from the current trend of imagining absolutely dismal futures. Frequently described as “neither a dystopia nor a utopia,” Palmer’s earth of 2454 has not fallen into disaster, but it hasn’t been perfected either—rather, it is…
Book Review – Red Clocks
Red Clocks is the latest work from Portland-based writer Leni Zumas, and has already been compared to the influential writing of Margaret Atwood and Naomi Alderman’s brilliant bestseller The Power. On the front, the cover asks the reader ‘what is a woman for?’ a question that immediately conjures up images of motherhood and all that…
Book Review – This Will Be My Undoing
This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America by Morgan Jerkins Morgan Jerkins’ debut essay collection, “This Will Be My Undoing”, promises the reader 10 essays about “living at the intersection of black, female, and feminist in (white) America”. From the first essay to the last,…
Book Review – The Woman in the Moon
Marjorie Saiser. The Woman in the Moon. Backwaters Press, 2018. By Nina Murray. Marjorie Saiser’s newest collection traverses elemental paths of longing, guilt, connection, and reckoning, to arrive, with a piercing honesty at the renewed discipline of being human. The title evokes both a reclamation of a symbolic reference point and a peculiar placement of…
Book Review – The Great Alone
Some books are written for relaxing beach trips, when you don’t want to think to hard about anything and just want a fun story to take up a little space in your brain in between cocktails and afternoon naps. The Great Alone is not one of those books. Rather, it is a long, emotional haul…
Book Review – You Think It, I’ll Say It
You Think It, I’ll Say It by Curtis Sittenfeld Reviewed by Lynn Lipinski WHEN IMAGINARY WORLDS COLLIDE My freshman year of high school I crushed on a boy named T. After months of in-class flirting and meaningful looks, T. asked me to go to the movies with him one afternoon after school. My first date!…
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