Tag: novel

• Women Writers Reading Challenge #36: The Secret History by Donna Tartt

  September 3, 2015

  Reading Challenge

  Donna Tartt, fiction, novel, reading challenge, The Secret History, women writers

  I find that it always takes me a while to get through Donna Tartt’s books, but that the effort is always worthwhile. Her writing is so intelligent, so tightly controlled, and you get drawn into this parallel universe where insane things can happen and seem quite rational. Her characters are flawed, interesting, and dynamic. She…

• Women Writers Reading Challenge #33 : Someone by Alice McDermott

  August 14, 2015

  Reading Challenge

  Alice McDermott, fiction, novel, reading challenge, Someone, women writers

  I’ve read a lot of books with a similar premise to Alice McDermott’s (like Cynthia Ozick’s The Puttermesser Papers and Mary Costello’s Academy Street). The focus on a single life gives an author room to show how each of our lives are significant, and how they are interesting in all of their distinct particulars. What…

• Women Writers Reading Challenge #28: The Puttermesser Papers by Cynthia Ozick

  July 21, 2015

  Reading Challenge

  Cynthia Ozick, golem stories, novel, reading challenge, The Puttermesser Papers, women writers

  Some books rush by, leaving little impression. Others linger, force you to examine them a bit more slowly. Cynthia Ozick’s book demands this consideration. It somehow manages to be a recounting of the most mundane and the most fantastic and surreal, where golems are mentioned in the same breath as city corruption and Russian immigration.…