I Am a Chechen! In “I am a Chechen!” German Sadulaev pulls together a set of stories, based heavily on his own biographical experiences, about the Chechen conflicts. Fragmentary, lyrical, in turns desperate and magical, and often non-linear, this collection follows in the tradition of Russian writers such as Lermontov and Babel, taking bare biography […]
Read more "“I Am a Chechen!” by German Sadulaev"Patchers of the Code (The Anders’ Quest Series Book 3) At last! The hotly anticipated (by me, at least) final book to the “Annals of Gentalia” series, “Patchers of the Code,” is finally here! Lovers of comic fantasy and very bizarre erotica, rejoice! If you haven’t read the first two installments in the series, then […]
Read more "“Patchers of the Code” by CB Archer"Monumental Propaganda Aglaya (“The Shining One”) Revkina (“The Zealous One”) may have never had an orgasm, but she does know what love is. All the passion her skinny body is capable of has been dedicated her entire life to Comrade Stalin. It’s unfortunate that the rest of the world is incapable of matching her ardor. […]
Read more "“Monumental Propaganda” by Vladimir Voinovich"This is something I just found out about, started by Tynga’s Reviews. You get to list books you’ve acquired with the intention of reading. Gulp! I try not to think too hard about my TBR list, but actually at the moment it’s not too bad. So here are some books I’m planning to read soon, or […]
Read more "Stacking the Shelves!"Lilyth – Book 1 (The Shadow Spirits Paradox) Lilyth has lost her mother and is being raised by her grandparents, but she is haunted by dreams of the flood that took her mother away. Her village is now dwindling, and the men that are left are being drafted to fight a shadow that is menacing […]
Read more "“Lilyth” by Tiyana Angel"A Random Walk down Wall Street: The Time-tested Strategy for Successful Investing Do you want to get rich quickly? Then this is not the book for you! But if you really do want to get rich, albeit slowly, then this book has plenty of useful information. In “A Random Walk Down Wall Street,” Burton Malkiel […]
Read more "“A Random Walk Down Wall Street” by Burton G. Malkiel"Yep, time for more freebies! If you’re tired of reading about men making decisions for women, why not check out a story about a society in which women quite literally rule? Reviewers have described it as both “anti-feminist” and “really degrading to men,” so I must be doing something right 😉 More seriously, I prefer […]
Read more "The Midnight Land: Part One is FREE!"“It’s very frightening,” Babchenko tells us, “that the war is in color.” Not black-and-white, like the heroic WWII movies he and his fellow soldiers had grown up on, but in the brilliant colors of the beautiful Caucasus mountains, where not one but two appallingly brutal wars have been fought in the past two decades. In […]
Read more "“One Soldier’s War” by Arkady Babchenko"In “Zinky Boys,” Alexievich weaves together interviews with those who have been affected by the Soviet war in Afghanistan–soldiers, yes, but also doctors and nurses, civilian contractors, and, most tragically of all, the mothers and widows left behind–to create a document that is heartbreaking, harrowing, and utterly damning. Those who ended up in Afghanistan did […]
Read more "“Zinky Boys” by Svetlana Alexievich"Amy Tan’s latest offering is both similar to her previous books, and yet startlingly different. While it possesses the richness of description and the multi-generational depth and breadth we’ve come to associate with Tan, prudish readers may be shocked by the sexual details of the main character’s experiences, and the tone is somehow different from […]
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E. P. Clark: Author, Book Reviewer, and All-Around Literary Handiwoman 