Tuesday, May 17, 2022

Patricia Wolf LIFE ON SMOKING MOUNTAIN (2021)

 

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  Muscle for the Wing by Daniel WoodrellMuscle for the Wing
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

has some Justified B-storyline flair, otherwise largely forgettable

Monday, May 16, 2022

Patricia Wolf SOTTO LE STELLE (2020)

 

started volunteering at the aquarium. cutest little non English-speaking family with two toddler girls was hanging out at the touch pools so I showed them a decorator crab about to chow down on a shrimp and got low and did the crab munch and pretty soon all five of us were doing it, it was like going viral on TikTok but IRL erebody doing the crabmunch



  Under the Bright Lights by Daniel WoodrellUnder the Bright Lights (Rene Shade, #1)
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

nice beignet fluff. less about crime/mystery than atmosphere. gets points for style and Stag

Sunday, May 15, 2022

Patricia Wolf SEE-THROUGH (2022)

Wolf is a Portlander who makes music the way groundwater flows beneath the riverbed

Saturday, May 07, 2022

Post-America DAYTIME MOON (2022)

 

The Dream of the CeltMario Vargas Llosa did the anti-imperialist world a good turn by resurrecting the story of this forgotten legend. One of the most influential figures in the shaming and eventual dismantling of the colonial system was this Irishman, knighted by the crown, and then hung as a traitor for attempting to smuggle arms to Irish nationalists prior to the Easter Uprising. Couldn't be much more heroic. Roger Casement got kicked in the ribs by life over and over and responded by only becoming braver and more resolutely human. Let a thousand Rogers bloom.

Sunday, May 01, 2022

Spiritualized EVERYTHING WAS BEAUTIFUL (2022)

 

HAPPY MAYDAY FROM ME & COMRADE O'BRIEN