[3] July 12, 2012
China Miéville’s latest book, Railsea [4], takes an ambitious run at a classic heavyweight - Moby Dick. The comparisons are plentiful and easily made, but Railsea turns the story of revenge into something completely its own.
[3] China Miéville’s latest book, Railsea [4], takes an ambitious run at a classic heavyweight - Moby Dick. The comparisons are plentiful and easily made, but Railsea turns the story of revenge into something completely its own.
[6] Can’t throw? Can’t catch? Can’t get a ticket to the All-Star game? These baseball novels will be “bery bery” good to you. No other American sport lends itself so well to fiction. Both come with beginnings, middles, and ends and neither are over until the last pitch is thrown.
[8] Some kids breeze through high school with good looks and good grades, while others can be their peers' object of torment. Is there a hierarchy of status based on attractiveness? Siobhan Vivian [9] puts this to the test in her YA novel The List [10].
[12] In Toni Morrison’s latest novel, Home [13], 24-year old Frank Money is an African-American army veteran struggling to maintain his sanity, his manhood, and find his place in the world a year after returning from the Korean War.
[15] Boleto [16] by Alyson Hagy is not some archaic Western. It is about a young man who could be my contemporary, but who nonetheless lives in a different America than I do.
Links:
[1] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/KC+Unbound/feed
[2] http://drupal.org/node/11816
[3] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/railsea-china-mi-ville
[4] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=author:"china+mieville"+title:"railsea"
[5] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/17652#comment-form
[6] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/5-all-star-reads-all-star-game
[7] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/17605#comment-form
[8] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/list-siobahn-vivian
[9] http://www.siobhanvivian.com
[10] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=author:%22vivian%22+title:%22the+list%22
[11] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/17587#comment-form
[12] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/home-toni-morrison
[13] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=author:%22toni+morrison%22+title:%22home%22
[14] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/17535#comment-form
[15] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/boleto-alyson-hagy
[16] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=author:%22Alyson+Hagy%22+title:%22Boleto%22
[17] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/17502#comment-form
[18] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10498
[19] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10498?page=10
[20] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10498?page=7
[21] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10498?page=8
[22] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10498?page=9
[23] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10498?page=12
[24] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10498?page=13
[25] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10498?page=14
[26] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10498?page=15
[27] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10498?page=50