Review – The Seal Wife by Kathryn Harrison

The Seal Wife by Kathryn Harrison

The Seal Wife – Kathryn Harrison Fourth Estate Fiction Kathryn Harrison’s latest novel is set in Anchorage, Alaska. The year is 1915. Bigelow, product of an emotionally starved upbringing, has been ordered by the Weather Bureau for whom he works, to open up for them in Alaska.  He must set up a weather forecasting station in the […]

Summary of The Science of Getting Rich

This is Chapter 17 from Wallace D Wattles book, The Science of Getting Rich.  Wallace was a pioneering ‘Success’ writer who lived from 1860-1911. There is a thinking stuff from which all things are made, and which, in its original state, permeates, penetrates, and fills the interspaces of the universe. A thought in this substance produces […]

Review – The Bridegroom by Ha Jin

The Bridegroom by Ha Jin

This collection of short stories by Ha Jin is set amongst the ordinary people of China and against the after effects of the circumstance of communism.  Ha Jin offers us characters such as Mr Chiu in The Saboteur and Shaona, the six year old main character from In The Kindergarten  who find ways to extract cunning retribution for injustice […]

Review – Mercy Among the Children by David Richard Adams

Mercy Among the Children by David Adams Richards

Mercy Among the Children David Adams Richards Jonathon Cape – Random House That’s the way books work isn’t it?  By working the emotions.  We are obliged with books to create our own images, and these are always produced with some sort of feeling, an emotion.   Mercy Among the Children is a book that thoroughly engages your emotions, […]

Transmute

Let me take you on a truly whacky walk now.  My pen spat this out one day – whacky pen in a world and time when everything is possible. “But you must follow us.  We will help you.  We are benign.  We need you to transmute,  to release the energy on this plane which will […]