Blog Tour | TAKEOUT SUSHI by Christopher Green

About the Book: TAKEOUT SUSHI by Christopher Green Publication: May 2024 Publisher: Neem Tree Press Genre: Contemporary Short Stories Takeout Sushi is a collection of 17 illustrated short stories set mostly in contemporary Japan that explore feelings of belonging, displacement, and the strangeness...

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Book Review | NORTH WOODS by Daniel Mason

NORTH WOODS BY DANIEL MASON | PUBLICATION: SEPTEMBER 19, 2023 PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE | GENRE: HISTORICAL FICTION RATING: ★★★★ ____________________________________________________________________ A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of...

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WHERE I FIND MY DOSE OF SHORT STORIES

  Most aficionados want to read collected short stories because it’s like reading multiple books in one. I especially love those collections moving in one theme using different facets of life to simply show that every glimpse of life is worth telling. Also, sometimes we want to read independent...

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LUCRETIA AND THE KROONS by Victor LaValle

  I read this before going to sleep last night. I should be bothered because this was branded by some as horror, but I was not. After finishing the story, I slept soundly while Typhoon Sarika was raging outside our windows. Possibly, it’s because I was left satisfied after reading the...

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Book Review | The Ring of Brightest Angels Around Heaven: A Novella and Stories by Rick Moody

   Kindle Edition November 10, 2015 The collection is composed of eleven stories portraying life in different voices, styles, and lucidity. It was previously printed in 1995, although, most of the stories first appeared in some literary magazines across the web. Among the stories, The...

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MAY is Short Story Month (Part II)

REFLECTIONS. SIX FEET OF THE COUNTRY by Nadine Gordimer A peculiar story involving a white couple, who owns a farm 10 miles out of Johannesburg, and their black farmhands. Unknown to the couple, their farmhands had been smuggling family members and relatives out from Rhodesia into their farm....

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MAY is Short Story Month (Part I)

LIST On the other side of the planet, May is Short Story Month. I don't think Philippines shares in the celebration, but no one is trying to stop anyone who wants to celebrate either. As far as The Page Walker is concerned, it's an opportunity to take.  It seems such a waste not to take advantage...

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REST AREA by Clay McLeod Chapman

Monologues.       Reading about Mr. Chapman across the web, he started his career as a playwright since he was twelve. No wonder he chose to write his debut collection in monologue-form. The collection is composed of 20 stories crammed with dark, nightmarish...

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2015 Reading Challenge: January

Hi there! Let's welcome the 2015 Reading Challenge Banner. Not that we did not have one last year; but I thought it best to have another one this year for the sake of uniformity. Last December was hectic, but I managed to squeeze some reading. Although most of them were short stories,...

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SOUP REVIEWS | 4

Short Stories.    For days, I have been contemplating how to post these short stories I've read recently. Then, I remember that I have this feature. It had been idle for such a long time, more than a year in fact. So for Nochebuena, we will have some soup... Soup Reviews, that is. *** The...

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Required Reading: December 2014

November had come and gone. And December is here carrying all the Christmas cheers we may enjoy. For a bookish person that means more books –receiving, listing, buying, shelving, and reshelving.  But let us not forget Thanksgiving, feasting, family, and fellowship on our list, my dears. ...

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WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT LOVE by Raymond Carver

Love Can Turn You Nuts   What do we really know about love exactly? None. Each of our definitions will remain debatable… significant, but still debatable. If love is truly absolute –can not be diminished in any way and non-relative- then all arguments are null and heartbreaks are non-existent. “…it...

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