Tag: books

February 26, 2015

Quote – Liking the Way Books Made The World Tilt

“He liked to read the ones that nobody came for; he didn’t understand all of what they said, but he read them just in case. He liked the way they made the world tilt different ways in his vision.” -Leah Bobet – Above (Arthur A. Levine Books, 2012)

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January 21, 2015

Women Made of Words

A review of Sean moreland’s Rowena in Lackington’s issue 2 ( http://lackingtons.com/2014/05/13/rowena-by-sean-moreland/ ) By Derek Newman-Stille Sean Moreland’s Rowena is a tale of names, words, and memory, and how these have been implicated in the creation of women’s identities. Structured as a series of letters from an accused witch to her daughter, Rowena is shaped by the aesthetic of loss....

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December 12, 2014

Mute Ghost in a World of Words

A review of S.M. Beiko’s The Lake and the Library (ECW Press, 2013) By Derek Newman-Stille S.M. Beiko’s The Lake and the Library is nominally a story about growing up, and the feeling of nostalgia for things lost and things changing. It is about the discovery of a library filled with books that are gateways to fantastic worlds, pages that...

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June 22, 2013

Quote – Pages Unlock Worlds

“Let pages turn as they may and locks come undone; Let one world unravel, as another’s begun.” Sandra Kasturi – The Soft Key (Come Late to the Love of Birds – Tightrope Books, 2012).

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April 20, 2013

Quote – Can Bear Anything As Long As There Are Books

“I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.” -Jo Walton – Among Others (TOR, 2010)

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March 29, 2013

Quote – Being Alive For Books

“There may be stranger reasons for being alive. There are books… There’s interlibrary loan. There are books you can fall into and pull up over your head.” -Jo Walton – Among Others (TOR, 2010)

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March 23, 2013

Quote – Terrible Things BUT Great Books

“There are some awful things in the world, it’s true, but there are also some great books.” -Jo Walton – Among Others (TOR, 2010)

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February 9, 2013

Characters in Books Become Real in the Otherworld

A Review of Charles de Lint’s Spirits in the Wires By Derek Newman-Stille In his Spirits in the Wires, Charles de Lint expresses something that I have wished to be true since I was a child: that the characters that we read in books become real through our collective imagination. De Lint’s Otherworld and the In-Between, standing between our world...

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January 25, 2013

The Bookstore of Belonging

A review of Claude Lalumiere’s The Door To Lost Pages (ChiZine Publications, 2011) By Derek Newman-Stille In The Door To Lost Pages, Claude Lalumiere once again shows his ability to add a hint of the mythic to the underpinnings of reality and challenge the hegemony of the real by suggesting that there is more to the world than what we...

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November 1, 2012

Quote – Vampires Smell of Old Books

“Smells pretty good for a vampire. He smelled of old books and rooms left forgotten.” -Kerry Anne Fudge – “Harvest” in UnEarthed (Third Person Press, 2012).

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