Title: Ρωσικά χριστουγεννιάτικα διηγήματα Writer: Edited by Evgenia Krichevskaya, Eleni Bakopoulou Publishing House: Narkissos Date of Publication: November 2004 Ratings: 5 stars *All quotes translated by me, taken from the Greek original.* ”The great days were approaching.”- this is how a narration or a story about Christmas often starts. […] For the adults these days are indeed ”great”. But they…
Month: December 2018
Almost Famous Women
Title: Almost Famous Women Writer: Megan Mayhew Bergman Publishing House: Scribner Date of Publication: January 6th 2015 Rating: 2 stars There is currently a plethora of books that aim to bring women whose stories deserve to be more widely known to surface. If you ask me, I think it was about time. However, what makes me apprehensive is the fact…
A Vintage Christmas
Title: A Vintage Christmas Writer: Various Publishing House: Random House UK Date of Publication: October 4th 2018 Rating: 4 stars ‘’The week before Christmas, when snow seemed to lie thickest, was the moment for carol-singing; and when I think back to those nights it is to the crunch of snow and to the lights of the lanterns on it.’’ In…
Dusk: Stories and Poems from Solstice Shorts Festival
Title: Dusk: Stories and Poems from Solstice Shorts Festival 2017 Writer: Edited by Cherry Potts Publishing House: Arachne Press Date of Publication: 2018 Rating: 5 stars ‘’On he ambles, down the avenue where the bark of the beech trees traits silvery, lichen beards. Their dark, wind-sculpted branches reach out for the sky, wild as the hair of Macbeth’s crones.’’…
Ivris
Title: Ivris Writer: Dubravka Lalić Publishing House: IGAM Date of Publication:2010 Rating: 4 stars *All quotes translated by me. Taken from the Greek edition of the original written in Serbian, translated by Nadica Mihailović. * ‘’My soil has been spilled. The soil of my country has been spilled. What will become of my poor flower now? How will it…
Miracle on 34th Street
Title: Miracle on 34th Street: A Storybook Edition of the Christmas Classic Writer: Valentine Davies, illustrated by James Newman Gray and adapted for picture book by Susanna Leonard Hill Publishing House: Sourcebooks Jabberwocky Date of Publication: October 2nd 2018 Rating: 5 stars ‘’Mother says there’s no such thing as Santa Claus or any of the other silly things children are…
A Light of Her Own
Title: A Light of Her Own Writer: Carrie Callaghan Publishing House: Amberjack Publishing Date of Publication: November 13th 2018 Rating: 1 star Holland, during the 17th century. Judith and Maria are two women who are struggling to find their footing in a society that closes all doors to the ones who don’t fit in the religious images cultivated by an…
Winter: An Anthology for the Changing Seasons
Title: Winter: An Anthology for the Changing Seasons Writer: edited by Melissa Harrison Publishing House: Elliott & Thompson Date of Publication: October 20th 2016 Rating: 5 stars ‘’Quickly, days short, somehow we all adjust and welcome the dark, for it is neither threatening nor smothering. Darkness becomes a thing of joy and vivid beauty in its own right. When early…
Bottled Goods
Title: Bottled Goods Writer: Sophie van Llewyn Publishing House: Fairlight Books Date of Publication: July 11th 2018 Rating: 5 stars *If you attempt any political comments, think again. You can’t win an argument with me, thank you.’’ ‘’Twenty years later, an icon of the Saviour will hang in this spot, but in 1975, it’s Ceaușescu’s depiction that the…
The Blue
Title: The Blue Writer: Nancy Bilyeau Publishing House: Endeavour Quill Date of Publication: December 3rd 2018 Rating: 3 stars ‘’London is alive. And so am I.’’ 18th century, England. Genevieve comes from a Huguenot family that found shelter in England, persecuted in their own country due to their religious beliefs. In a time when the war with France is raging,…
Fox
Title: Fox Writer: Dubravka Ugrešić (tr. by Ellen Elias-Bursać and David Williams Publishing House: Open Letter Date of Publication: April 17th 2018 (first published June 2017) Rating: 5 stars ‘’We are all footnotes, many of us will never have the chance to be read, all of us in an unrelenting and desperate struggle for our lives, for the life of…
Unbury Carol
Title: Unbury Carol Writer: Josh Malerman Publishing House: Del Rey Books Date of Publication: February 5th 2019 (first published April 10th 2018) Rating: 5 stars ‘’To someone outside the coma [….] I appear…dead. Hardly a heartbeat. Far from fogging a mirror. And a pulse as slow as a slug. There’s no light in there, John. I can hear the world…
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