Tag: Review of Australian Fiction
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Reading catch up
I read all the time, but finding the book you can really sink into is rare, at least for me. Yoon Ha Lee is proving to be one of those authors and his recent novel Raven Stratagem was crazy wild and wonderful. Catherynne M. Valente’s Deathless was another beautiful read. And some of the short…
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Longing
I am behind on my RAF reading (I am behind on life in general ), and so this will be a write up of four stories. And though I’m aware of that human bias to find connections where there may be none, I think all of the stories have a certain longing in them. In Issue…
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Perfume, Rain, and Chaos. Two New Stories from RAF.
There are no super powers in the latest Review of Australian Fiction, but each of the main characters possess an extraordinary ability. Do you remember Patrick Suskind’s novel Perfume? What if the protagonist had been somewhat less psychopathic (though as completely self-obsessed) and had become trapped in the kind of corporate dullness that ruins many men? And what…
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Two Great Stories from Review of Australian Fiction
I’m just delighted to be receiving one of the Review of Australian Fiction’s Reading Fellowships. And it started a few days ago with Volume 22 and two wonderful stories by Angela Slatter and Angie Rega. Two fantasy stories, no less. Angela Slatter’s A Little Mermaid, in Passing tells the well known Little Mermaid story from the point…
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