I enjoy biographies, I enjoy mysteries, and I love the ever-living-daylights out of literary novels that sort of combine the two. While the book reads like a thoughtful biography of the fictional Nelson and the narrator speaks as if you ought to know what happened to this guy from reading the papers...
Received a copy of At Night We Walk In Circles By Daniel Alarcón through the First Reads Giveaway This novel's subject matter is not one I would normally gravitate to. Performance arts typically involves overly dramatic, self-indulged, and entitled individuals that give me little reason to sympathiz...
While I was reading At Night We Walk In Circles, I caught my ten year old staring at the book cover. “What?” I asked. “That's a weird title,” he said. “Why is it weird?” I asked. He said he didn't know, that it just was. I brushed it off. The next day, while I was reading, my wife interrupted me: “A...
Information on the writing process of various authors. I always knew writing was magical....
In War by Candlelight, Daniel Alarcon shines a flickering light on a piece of modern Peruvian history. On, and it’s 1989, with two fighters in the jungle, one about to die; off, then on again, and it is 1966 where the father of one of those fighters is proudly sending his son off to university; off,...
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