Review:

November, 2008

Monday, November 24, 2008 -- Ocean Sea by Alessandro Baricco

Normally I would start a review with a summary of the plot, but having only read "Ocean Sea" once, I don't feel competent to summarise it. Suffice it to say that some characters get together at a hotel by the sea, and there's a chap painting the sea with sea-water, a woman who's going to die unless the sea can cure her, another woman who's trying to choose between her husband and her lover, and a lot of strange children.

Monday, November 17, 2008 -- The Lone Star Stories Reader, edited by Eric T. Marin

There is so much beauty here, densely packed yet woven like gossamer thread.