At the moment, I'm reading Greg Bear's horror novel, Dead Lines, the Oct/Nov issue of F&SF and stories out of Adam Haslett's You Are Not a Stranger Here. I've finished A. S. Byatt's Little Black Book of Stories. "The Thing In the Woods," is a wonderful wonderful thing and the description of 'that' horror in the woods matches the creature/god in the opening of Miyazaki's Princess Mononoke exactly. "The Stone Woman" is a surrealistic fantasy piece where a woman becomes stone and it is not a bad thing, not really. A powerful collection. And there was The Lemon Table by Julian Barnes. Hey, there have been a lot of reviews about this book being all about aging and dying, but it's really about lives lived. I'm going to point a finger at these particular stories, because I loved them, "Hygiene" and "The Story of Mats Isrealson" and and and "Knowing French" which is an epistolary tale where the aging female protagonist writes to Julian Barnes.
Written and posted by Pam McNew
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