I'm planning out my 2020 reading challenge(s), and I decided I'm going to read all of Tracy Chevalier's books (the ones I haven't already read). To try and give myself a jump start, I thought I'd give these short stories a read. I started with Tracy Chevalier's and it wasn't bad (not great either, b...
Thanks to a newly discovered YouTuber, Mercedes, I was made aware of what promised to be a very beautiful and interesting graphic novel by the name of Everything Is Teeth. Written by Evie Wyld and illustrated by Joe Sumner, this is the story of Evie's childhood obsession with sharks. It was the artw...
Warning: This graphic novel contains images of animal and human death and injury, some imagined, some real.When Evie’s brother gets a shark’s jaw for Christmas, she is fascinated. She finds a book about shark attacks and learns of Rodney Fox’s experience; how his abdomen was opened and all his ribs ...
Evie Wyld’s All the Birds, Singing tells the story of Jake Whyte, an Australian woman with a troubled past who finds herself tending a sheep farm on a secluded British island. As the narrative’s multiple plot lines unravel, we are told more of Jake’s history and her struggle to forget it. These mult...
In an unusual way, the timeline of this story begins at the end of the tale, and ends at the beginning of it. Working backward and forward in time, in one chapter we find ourselves in Jake Whyte’s present life, and in the next we are in her past, moving forward, filling in most of the details, to fu...
SO TENSE. not without moments of brightness, but still unrelenting tension in Jake's life. reminded me weirdly of Wolf in White Van because both are circling around a central point in the narrator's life that isn't revealed til the end, but with different results. beautiful.
SO TENSE. not without moments of brightness, but still unrelenting tension in Jake's life. reminded me weirdly of Wolf in White Van because both are circling around a central point in the narrator's life that isn't revealed til the end, but with different results. beautiful.
Jake Whyte lives on an old farm on a small British island, tucked away from the world with her disobedient collie named Dog. However when her flock of sheep start dying from mysterious and horrific circumstances, Jake has to engage with the rest of the island in order to find out what is happening. ...
Another sheep, mangled and bled out, her innards not yet crusting and the vapours rising from her like a steamed pudding. Crows, their beaks shining, strutting and rasping, and when I waved my stick they flew to the trees and watched, flaring out their wings, singing, if you could call it that.I fir...
this is a book that mainly consists of these three themes: isolation, guilt, and how people will always try to escape the past. jake whyte is a tough australian who has immigrated to britain to run a sheep farm. it’s, in some ways, jake’s way of cutting herself off from the rest of the world, and g...
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