Pink Fiction Club

  Before I decided to purchase my copy of ‘A Certain Hunger’ by Chelsea G Summers, my knowledge of the book consisted of the overall agreement that the US cover was far superior to the UK one and that it had something to do with food.  So, imagine my surprise when at the end of the first chapter, I was introduced to a woman who is writing her story from prison where she is serving a life sentence because she killed and ate her lovers. However, although this was not the kind of novel I was expecting to read in the month of love, I continued and I am very glad that I did. Dorothy Daniels, our protagonist, does fall into the category of an unhinged woman, which I was a bit wary of after I did not like a few I previously came into contact with. However, Dorothy feels a lot more real and a lot more developed as a person. She is given room to tell us in her own, extremely capable words (she is a food writer, after all) who she is. The fact that she is perfectly aware that murdering ...

  A Tale for the Time Being" and Ruth Ozeki were discovered to me and I suppose many others by Lana Bastasic, one of my favorite contemporary authors. On her Instagram profile, Bastasic wrote about how Ozeki made her read as a reader and not as an author. This and some additional information about the book’s plot and ideas made me buy this book. I even took it with me to my trip back to Serbia and I am not sure how appropriate it is that I read the first 100 pages of it during the 5 hour delay on Serbian Christmas Eve. In any case, I have recently finished the whole novel and it did take me some time to really wrap my thoughts about it. However, as I was talking about it to my mother, the memories of Ozeki’s writing and one particular character definitely made me feel something. That made me realize that this is a novel that does require careful reading and some time to think about it. I am glad that I gave it both of those things and while I am sure that some of the ideas and phi...