The Courier's New Bicycle
by:
Kim Westwood (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780732289881
Publish date: 2011
Publisher: HarperVoyager
Pages no: 327
Edition language: English
Great premise: hormones, animals, politics, gender. Fun, but doesn't quite dig enough; genre-nostalgic.
Got to page 20 and so utterly disinterested I didn't want to read on. Usually I can read to the middle of the book before coming to this conclusion, but not in this case.A week or so later I tried again, and struggled my way to page 50. Nothing has changed. The plot and characters simply aren't inte...
What I liked the most about this book was any strong gender expression was performative. For some reason not made explicit in the book, characters kept asking Sal to find things out for them. Frankly, Sal was not good at this. Things happened. Sal was there to notice them, or not as the plot went. T...
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