Tag: #If You Could Read My Mind
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The selective extinction of our species
If You Could Read My Mind: The four novels today deal with social conduct and mores with a light touch, even when the subject matter is the extinction of the species via murder, male mid-life crisis, suicide, and AI. To the authors’ credit, these four are wonderfully rendered comedies.
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Literary humor, fraud, and high drama
If You Could Read My Mind: Two novels today, ‘The Echo Chamber’ and ‘Little Siberia,’ are humorous and playful. ‘The Sweetness of Water’ is a dramatic depiction of post-Civil War and ‘The Plot’ is about literary fraud and the consequences paid.
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C’est magnifique and crime does pay
IF YOU COULD READ MY MIND: A multi-awarded French novel gets its English translation, and three distinct, diverse types of crime fiction
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Commemorating the vanishing and the American Dream revisited
IF YOU COULD READ MY MIND: An interesting meditation on physical loss and impermanence, and three varying versions of the American Dream, imbibing the Past, the Present, and the Future. These are the four novels reviewed here.
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Europa, Europa
IF YOU COULD READ MY MIND: European Crime Fiction takes the spotlight via the debut novel of a Swedish author, a French graphic novel, and one set in the UK. And we have a sci-fi alt-history tale set in Germany 1945.
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A New York state of crime and London calling
IF YOU COULD READ MY MIND: From the Hamptons to upstate New York, to London or the nearby outskirts
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Mystery deaths, the social divide, and saving Mother Earth
IF YOU COULD READ MY MIND: The four novels today are a mixed bag of delights.
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From the world of words and two from Japan
IF YOU COULD READ MY MIND: Today, we have books that “play” in the world of words, dictionaries, and libraries. And there are two novels from Japanese authors, from opposite ends of the writing spectrum.