book reviews, opinions and fun by Norm Sigurdson
I just finished Roxane Gay's searingly honest memoir, Hunger, about her battle with her "unruly body and unruly appetites." Gay is a literature professor, a respected novelist, essayist and a sought-after cultural commentator. She is also a very large woman. She stands six foot three inches tall and at her heaviest she weighed 577 pounds. …
Donal Ryan is considered to be one of Ireland's leading young writers. I've been meaning to read him for some time and just finished his latest novel, his third, the beautifully moving and at times beautifully sad All We Shall Know. It is a story about the dead ends that we all continue to …
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I enjoyed Sarah Perry's eerie and dreamlike first novel, After Me the Deluge, and just finished her follow up novel, The Essex Serpent, an equally lush and sensuous read. The Essex Serpent takes place mostly in London and in the town of Colchester on the Essex Estuary in the early 1890s. It has a …
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