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Oh boy, my reading.About Chum, from the publisher:
I should be staying up to date with the new trends, what’s publishing, etc. I’m a guy trying to make money by selling books, I should be reading what all the kids and middle-aged former punk rockers are reading right? I am not.
I just got done reading Kings of Albion by Julian Rathbone, which I picked up in a used book store. It’s a historical adventure story that lacks adventure. The characters all come together in India and travel to England during the War of the Roses and get caught up in local events ... and get separated and spend quite a lot of the book sitting around having English history explained to them. MY GOD WHERE ARE THE SWORD FIGHTS? Very...[read on]
Mary and Bickerman are the center of their circle of friends—but these friends are strangers as well as family to them. In the course of year, under the influence of a stressfulLearn more about the book and author at Jeff Somers's website.wedding and a whole lot of alcohol, relationships and nerves are twisted and broken as the dynamics of the cozy-seeming group shift. Secrets are kept, emotions withheld, and it doesn’t look like it’s going to end well for anyone.
Told always in first person, but not the same person, and unfolding in double-helix chronology that provides a Rashomon-like narration, Chum is the story of love, liquor, and death.
My Book, The Movie: Chum.
The Page 69 Test: Chum.
Writers Read: Jeff Somers.
--Marshal Zeringue
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