New Review: Time Future
March 1, 2007 (1:13 AM) ( link )

ADDED a review of Maxine McArthur's Time Future.

Black Swan Green has picked up a little bit: there was a very good chapter about parental strife, and then another decent one about the protagonist's initiation into a secret society. Overall, though, the book isn't doing it for me.

I'm not sure what I'll read next. A guy I used to work with in college, Uzo Iweala, wrote a novel called Beasts of No Nation that was, I kid you not, the best-reviewed book of 2005. I've been meaning to read his book ever since I heard about it, but every time I consider it I think, dude, I chatted with this guy eight hours a week, every week, for almost two years, and now he's a successful novelist and I'm a second-year associate. It's depressing.