Meeks

This is an excellent dystopia. It's certainly every bit as good as Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale or P.D. James's The Children of Men. It's far better than Yevgeny Zamyatin's dashed off We. I'm rereading it now. What higher praise is there? Not to be missed.......more

I read some of the other Goodreads reviews of this book, and, frankly, I'm a little surprised. (Espcially at the book's own proofreader, who gave it a negative review. Isn't that a conflict of interest? Bad business ethics? Talking smack in a public forum about a product put out by a company that al......more

I can't help but use the work Kafkaesque when thinking about this novel, though the jacket copy helpfully provides Haruki Murakami as another, quite valid, point of comparison. This is in part the story of Ben, returned from military service and thrust into a "Bachelor House" from which he must attr......more

[URL not allowed] In her impressive debut novel, Meeks, Julia Holmes examines the institutions of marriage, family, and social order amid a satirical dystopian setting. Through alternating narratives expressed in lucid prose, Holmes shows readers a society much like our own, wh......more

The originality of this novel is astonishing. Must read.......more