Christi R. Suzanne - Writer

Well, I finally went social media official about my pregnancy and thought I would do a post on this book I am reading, Like a Mother A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy by Angela Garbes. She is actually doing a reading at Powell’s at the end of the month. If I am not too tired and pregnant by then I hope to go to it. Ha! Anyway, I am not quite halfway through and I am really enjoying it. My favorite chapter was about the placenta. Maybe I am one of

I first met Rebecca in an advanced fiction workshop at Portland State University in the Spring of 2002. I’ll never forget one of the scenes in a short story she had written. A woman is cutting up a cucumber for a salad that she is going to share with her boyfriend. She alternates between thick and thin slices, so she cuts up the cucumber in “thick, thin, thick, thin” slices. The details you put into that scene created an authentic story for me and I feel like that is translat

“I was genuinely interested in Frame’s purported aimless vacationing and was happy to go along for the ride.” Read my review on The Lit Pub’s blog: http://thelitpub.com/featured-books/death-in-venice-california/ View all my reviews #California #DeathinVenice #novel #review

Picked this up randomly at the library. So glad I did. An unexpected gem! Review to come. Review I picked up Heidi Durrow’s, The Girl Who Fell from the Sky (2010), while browsing the fiction section at the local branch of my neighborhood library. Generally I put books that I know I want to read on hold there and then go pick them up. It has become exceptionally rare for me to simply browse the bookshelves at the library and try something based on the cover or inside flaps. Ho

Such a strange and wonderful book! It’s strangely wonderful. I have a lot more to say about this and I’m working on a much longer book review of this particular book. I have thought of this book so much in the past couple of months since I finished it. Check out my recommendation on The Lit Pub Blog: http://thelitpub.com/discovery-a-repetitive-process/ View all my reviews #review #friendship #leonorawarrington #hearingtrumpet #friends #booknovel #elderly #surrealism