Category: Blogs
Randy Kraft’s OC Book Blog: Pairings | Sibling Non-Rivalry
In the examination of the pairing of the novels Unsettled Ground by Clair Fuller and Parakeet by Marie-Helene Bertino— just published,...
Randy Kraft’s OC Book Blog: Pairings: Two by Ishiguro
Kazuo Ishiguro, a Nobel and Pulitzer prize-winner, revered by fellow writers and readers, recently published a novel that seems, on the...
Randy Kraft’s OC Book Blog: Pairings—Jhumpa Lahiri and Natalia Ginzburg
After I read Whereabouts, I picked up Happiness, As Such, by Ginzburg, a very different novel and yet, the tone, the observational...
OC Book Blog: 2021—Post-Pandemic Pairs
I am discovering novels that seem to go together – not so much in content, rather in style or thematic. ...
Randy Kraft’s OC Book Blog: “The Sun Collective” by Charles Baxter
Like a spool of yarn, of many colors, The Sun Collective reveals in strands, a bit at a time, and takes the reader along, although I cannot...