What a story — after reading it I just sat back and said: Wow. A curious family with a as curious family history, and a curious grandmother with a handbag, that doesn’t have an universe in it, but close. Baldeziwurlekistan is supposedly the place gradnmother Sofia comes from, with her handbag, and a Russian […]
In her introduction to Best American Short Stories, 1989, Margaret Atwood mentions this one is, in her opinion, “one of Alice Munro’s best and, in the manner of its telling, quirkiest stories yet.” As of today, I haven’t read enough of Munro’s stories to say if I agree or disagree in this being one of […]
One of Baker’s Company novels, at least to me, it was the introduction of Mendoza, hero of several of them. In this the reader gets a look at the Bloody Mary’s reign, has some fun, gets to think about many things, some of them hard — and is enternained. I suppose that’s the main thing: […]