notanotherbookreview

                                                                  IT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE won the Noble Prize for Sinclair Lewis in 1930s for his postwar dystopia, where the fascist threat isn't external but home-grown.   The book is free at libraries or guttenberg.com.  Local bookstores probably have on "classics" shelves.  Amazon may be cheap and convenient, though never free. (Below is adapted from Wikipedia): Plot : In It Can't Happen Here   by American author Sinclair Lewis  an American politician, Berzelius "Buzz" Windrip, quickly rises to power to become the country's first outright dictator.  Doremus Jessup, a newspaper editor, early on sees Windrip's fascist  policies for what they are and becomes his most ardent critic.  Se...

Autonomy becomes urgent necessity in a volume of interlocking stories and a novel, Heroines must shed socio political expectations  and  their conditioning to remake their worlds.  GIRL, WOMAN, OTHER  (Grove Atlantic) by Bernardine Evaristo, won the 2019 Booker Prize and I am glad I just got around to reading it.  In our emergence from Covid, it seems more relevant than it might have in 2019.  These intertwined stories are like a musical ronde, each a different aspect of the subject, Black women finding autonomy, despite daily lives that demand conformity. Their voices, unexpected and enjoyable, come from present day Britain, though they extend to intergenerational immigrant experiences in Guam, the Caribbean, Nigeria.  Mothers, daughters, wives, fled wars and poverty, only to face new struggle and danger in public housing and menial jobs, no matter what education they brought. Their children, second generation, are caught in ambitions "to make it" and...

FUTURE NOIR : The Making of Blade Runner (Dey Street Books, HarperCollins) by Paul M. Sammon has a headline that's not  hyperbole-- The Fascinating Story Behind the Darkest, Most Influential Sci-fi Film Evermade.  Though 594 pages, I found this book obsessively interesting, though I'm not a  Blade Runner fan .  An art history and fan book, this revised and updated version of FUTURE NOIR delivers new interviews of  Sean Young and Rutger Hauer, and the longest interview Harrison Ford ever did on Blade Runner. The original interview with Ridley Scott is pretty good. The book also delivers talk about Ford's inexplicable antipathy for Young, Daryl Hannah's uncanny insight into being a replicant, the backgrounds of every actor, as well as the contributions of set, prop, costume designers and mechanics. It also gives a intriguing peek into Blade Runner 2049. The author, Paul Sammon, investigates the genesis of the film from Phil Dick's book and early scripts w...

Now 2020  audiobook of PARADISE GARDENS read by Nicole Greevy, a wonderful actress.  ACX releases on Audible and other outlets. I am very excited  Thanks for interest. And do remember only the Pelekinesis Edition is the definitive book, edited, illustrated and worth reading. If you would like to read this book and have scant funds, leave a comment or post/message on (Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/paradise.gardens.new.edition/ ). I believe at this time, this book  may be useful.  It begins 2250s after the Earth's surface is no longer habitable. The surviving corpoations move underground--to PARADISE GARDENS. Nationwide boycotts could stop corporations from destroying humans and the planet. Such boycotts halted the production of napalm in Vietnam and companies became aware of  public opinion as a unified force. Presently,Monsanto, like corp n my mythical Corporate Business Estates,  might yet be reined in.   Below is ...