A mixed bag of a book. First, if fanfic is a turnoff for you, be warned there are two stories in here which are basically fanfic, one with the serial numbers filed off and one which relied on the serial numbers to make its point. Maybe it's weird of me, but if I want fanfic, I'll wander the intern...
A smooth and swift read, dealing in a sort of [a:Scarlett Thomas|53597|Scarlett Thomas|http://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1244060683p2/53597.jpg] way with alternate universes and the butterfly effect. But it all feels very "Detatched Indie Fantastic" (as I'm hereby naming the subgenre) and as a result ...
Familiar focuses on Elisa, whose life at the beginning of the novel has been disrupted by the death of her son. Her marriage has fallen apart, and driving along a road one day she somehow is transported into an alternate universe where she has a slightly nicer car, the job she had wanted but gave u...
A pleasurable read, nothing pretentious or copy-cat about it though it could be argued I suppose that Lennon's voice wasn't thoroughly developed by my ears. I have no prior experience reading anything by J. Robert so I cannot compare this voice with any of his other ones, if he even has any. Nonethe...
Pieces for the Left Hand by J. Robert LennonThe 100 anecdotes collected in Pieces for the Left Hand are loosely held together by a setting (a small upstate New York town and its environs) and a narrative consciousness (an unemployed man who muses on these tales as he takes a daily walk). All are ve...
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