Category: Fiction

Reviews of fiction

A Quiver Full Of Arrows by Jeffrey Archer

[rating=3] Thank goodness Jeffrey Archer got a Baronetcy in 1992. The man has an unhealthy preoccupation with rank, status, and money (as this collection of short stories will attest). Written in 1980, ‘A Quiver Full of Arrows’ features vignettes of a simpler time, before email and cellular phones and Twitter and Facebook cluttered up our […]

Room by Emma Donoghue

[rating=4] Riveting. Read this nearly in one sitting. Incredibly well crafted, ‘Room’ is a crazy but successful exercise in trying to inhabit the minds of people whose experience is far outside your own ken. I wonder if Emma Donoghue wrote this purely from reading reports of abductions, or if she interviewed women who have lived […]