Category Archives: Book and film reviews

Over weekend I read four short stories. You should read them too.

Posted on August 29, 2013 by mkevane

Margaret Atwood’s Stone Mattress, The New Yorker, December 2011.  Just one word: Fun.  Here’s the review of the story at Mookse.  And here is excerpt from good review by Reader’s Quest: … I think that a possible key can be found … Continue reading →

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Kim Stanley Robinson’s Pacific Edge

Posted on August 28, 2013 by mkevane

I read/skimmed Kim Stanley Robinson’s Pacific Edge, one of the “Three Californias” trilogy.  I don’t know if these were written before or after Red Mars, his most famous book, but Pacific Edge deals with a favorite theme, nature and human’s … Continue reading →

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Lazy afternoon in Burkina Faso… why not read Tessa Hadley….

Posted on April 13, 2013 by mkevane

Tessa Hadley’s “Experience” is an entertainment, and I enjoyed it. Recently divorced Laura takes “friend of a friend” Hanna up on her offer to house-sit. Laura tells herself “that this house was a good place for me, temporarily: this nowhere … Continue reading →

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Stone Book Quartet line by line: 1

Posted on March 19, 2013 by mkevane

A bottle of cold tea; bread and a half onion. That was Father’s baggin. Mary emptied her apron of stones from the field and wrapped the baggin in a cloth. First paragraph. Delightfully sparse. Evokes the countryside of long ago. … Continue reading →

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