Once Upon a River

I really wanted to like this book. It's getting good buzz and the buzz is the type I like: fearless female ead character, written by a modern day Mark Twain. And the truth is I breezed through it in a few days, but at the end of the day I had to consider how much I truly enjoyed this book and in ord......more

(Reprinted from the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography [cclapcenter.com]. I am the original author of this essay, as well as the owner of CCLaP; it is not being reprinted illegally.) (Originally written for Daniel Casey's Gently Read Literature.) The more critical examinations of novels I d......more

"Érase un río" ha sido una novela revelación y su autora, Bonnie Jo Campbell todo un descubrimiento desde el momento en que me sumergí en el primer párrafo, a partir de aquí, toda una declaración de intenciones, ya supe que el resto de la novela vendría rodada. “El río Stark fluía por el meandro de M......more

I found this book a difficult read. The author is a good writer, but the content is excruciating...a free-fall of misery trotting out social conventions around beauty, motherhood, and male-female relationships. I was really expecting this to be different, the protagonist, Margo Crane to be more emot......more