The Housekeeper and The Professor by Yoko Ogawa is my first read for Women in Translation Month 2020. It is the story of a single parent housekeeper and her relationship with a former mathematics professor that can not take care of himself after a serious accident a...
Wisdom From Kammbia Book Review 52: White Pages by Ran Walker
by MHill | Jul 24, 2020 | 2020 Book Reviews, Marion's Favorite Books, Wisdom From Kammbia Column, Wisdom From Kammbia Novella Review
In a reading life, you will come across a novel that speaks directly to what you are going through. It is interesting that the power of a story can connect with a book that you read at the proper time. This is the case with White Pages by Ran Walker. Kamal Jackson is...
Wisdom From Kammbia Book Review 46: Latitudes of Longing by Shubhangi Swarup
by MHill | Jun 2, 2020 | 2020 Book Reviews, Marion's Reading Life Blog, Wisdom From Kammbia Column, Wisdom From Kammbia Novella Review
One of the joys of being a book review blogger is I get to read books I would have never come across in my normal book reading encounters. Latitudes of Longing by Mumbai-based writer Shubhangi Swarup is the latest book encounter outside of my normal reading...
Wisdom From Kammbia Book Review 36: Binti Home by Nnedi Okorafor
by MHill | Jan 22, 2020 | 2020 Book Reviews, Book Reviews, Marion's Reading Life Blog, Wisdom From Kammbia Column, Wisdom From Kammbia Novella Review
Can you ever go home again? Binti Home by Nnedi Okorafor attempts to answer that question. Binti returns home after a year away on a spaceship at Oozma University. She brings her friend, Okwu, for support. However, the homecoming does not go as expected and the family...
Wisdom From Kammbia Book Review 35: Animals at the End of the World by Gloria Susana Esquivel
by MHill | Jan 16, 2020 | 2020 Book Reviews, Wisdom From Kammbia Column, Wisdom From Kammbia Novella Review
I have a soft spot for coming-of-age stories. I don't have a good explanation for why those stories appeal to me as a reader. But, they do. When I found out about this first novel from Colombian author Gloria Susana Esquivel, I knew I had to read it. Animals at the...
Wisdom From Kammbia Book Review 13: The Black God’s Drums by P. Djeli Clark
by MHill | Jun 1, 2019 | 2019 Book Reviews, P. Djeli Clark, Wisdom From Kammbia Column, Wisdom From Kammbia Novella Review
One thing about having a Kindle, it gets easy to load it up with a lot of eBooks. The Black God's Drums by P. Djeli Clark has been on my Kindle app for awhile. Also, I attempted to read it twice before I finally...
Wisdom From Kammbia Book Review 4: Nightwings by Robert Silverberg
by MHill | Feb 5, 2019 | 2019 Book Reviews, Wisdom From Kammbia Column, Wisdom From Kammbia Novella Review
Robert Silverberg has become my favorite old school SF writer and I have read 6 books during his most prolific period of 1967-1976, beginning with A Time of Changes, Downward to the Earth, Tower of Glass, To Open the Sky, The Man in the Maze, and Nightwings....
Book Review 135: The Man in The Maze by Robert Silverberg
by MHill | Jun 14, 2018 | 2018 Book Reviews, Marion's Favorite Books, Wisdom From Kammbia Column, Wisdom From Kammbia Novella Review
"Science Fiction, more than any other form of literature, is a progress, and it comes with a sell-by date. Some old SF can become unreadable. Some reputations erode with time. What we respond to, once the sell-by date is past, is art and, perhaps, is also truth."...
Book Review 124: Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
by MHill | Jan 13, 2018 | 2018 Book Reviews, Marion's Reading Life Blog, Wisdom From Kammbia Column, Wisdom From Kammbia Novella Review
Nnedi Okorafor has been an author on my radar for quite some time. I had seen her books mentioned on the internet and in used bookstores over the past year. I will admit I was reluctant to read one of her novels...until now. Actually, Binti is a novella chronicling...
Book Review 114: To Open The Sky by Robert Silverberg
by MHill | Jul 31, 2017 | 2017 Book Reviews, Wisdom From Kammbia Column, Wisdom From Kammbia Novella Review
Can human beings live forever? Of course, we all know the answer to that question. One death per person. However, science fiction has tackled the immortality theme throughout its history as a genre and Robert Silverberg addresses it in several of his books during...