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Review: Solotramp | Eleanor Addy Binnings
Originally published on Reedsy Discovery Become a reviewer for Reedsy through my affiliate link Set in Colorado in the 1970s, Micky’s story takes place in the whirlwind of the US at war with Vietnam, looking for a missing father, and hiding from an estranged mother. Micky runs away for the third time and so the…
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Review: gusher | Christopher Stephen Soden
Originally published on Reedsy Discovery Become a reviewer for Reedsy through my affiliate link Gusher by Christopher Soden explores the poet’s lived experience as a Queer American male through stunning storytelling relayed in narrative, long-form poetry. Soden’s voice is honest yet reflective of a poet who has matured into their craft; he knows exactly what…
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Review: Archery in the UK | Ingrid Wilson & Nick Reeves
Archery in the UK is a special collection, published by Experiments in Fiction, as it is a collaboration between Ingrid Wilson and Nick Reeves and tells their story. A story of love, distance and missives through the extended metaphor of archery. Think Cupid’s bow but far more tender; Archery in the UK embodies agape not…
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Review: baby, sweetheart, honey | Emily Perkovich
It felt fitting to finish reading baby, sweetheart, honey, and review it, while still in the bath, having crushed a pink bath bomb in my left fist. It felt apt in order to relish Perkovich’s unrivalled ability to portray viscera and memory as the truth – the truth that every human being hangs by silken…
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Top Ten Books / 2022
1. Bonjour Tristesse and A Certain Smile, François Sagan Sagan’s two short stories, written in the 1950s, are fantastic explorations of teenage love & lust, discovering sex and how close death is to all of these feelings. Sagan writes with a sharp wit and heady description and her twists are yet to leave me! 2.…
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