Generation Loss, (Hardcover)

from nicole_a_davis

I didn't realize this was going to be so gory. And, it makes Maine seem like such a spooky place, disconnected from the rest of the word--in a bad way. I wish the author had spelled out more of the Maine accent to make the characters a little more endearing. Still, it is a very thoughtful book ab...

from ehines

Damage. Hand is good at depicting, and talking about, damaged people. The protagonist of this book is damaged enough that she's hard to root for sometimes. She needlessly makes trouble, sometimes really bad trouble, for herself and pretty much anyone she comes into contact with. She has inexplica...

from TonyaJ

There are generous people in the world and writers can be some of the more generous. Writers have opened up whole worlds for me to explore and without writers and their worlds, I probably would not have survived my childhood. I keep sort of harping on that when I write about books because I belie...

from RandyStafford

Say you're a late 40s burnout, burdened by few ethics and no plans, with no lovers or friends, working a dead end job, fueled by drugs and petty theft. Your one great talent is sensing the damage in others and devouring its final results, with your ancient Konica camera, like a crow eating road k...

from stacy_chambers

Cassandra Neary's a character a little too close for comfort for me. I'm not talking about the drinking and drug using, but the edge to her personality that's both her saving grace and the thing that does her in. An Erin Brockovich that went the wrong way. She's a washout, a failure (in her own e...