This book was very well written, well edited, and with the exception of trying to pronounce the names a joy to read - except, I just didn't like it much. It seems to me even novels should have a point and I just never found it in this one. I kept looking for "the golden mean," but never found it....
I had been trying to find a historical fiction about Greece for such a long time. You'll tell me that this book deals primarily with Macedon. In any case, I truly like the portrayal of Aristotle and Alexander in this book. This Alexander is complex not a hero but not a monster either. Just a pecu...
This was exceedingly dull, and also exceedingly disappointing, because this looked like historical fiction that was quite different from the rest. I’d thought this would be about Aristotle and Alexander the Great, and well, hahaha no. Lyon’s prose is modernly vulgar. Words like “chic” and “creepy...
Annabel Lyon’s debut book of fiction, Oxygen, “left the country’s literary elite breathless” (Elm Street magazine). Now, in The Best Thing for You, Lyon has taken her tough, unflinching style to new heights and all the anticipation is rewarded. Here, in three novellas, Lyon reveals the potentia...
Dad sings along to the CD. He sings to Mom into the microphone of his thumb with an intense look that makes her laugh. While the CD moans on, I catch Dexter’s eye and pretend to stick my finger down my throat. “What’s wrong, Edie?” Dexter says sweetly, and I can’t get the finger out before our pa...
I say. “Edith Jasmine Snow.” Mom makes her raisin face. “You are coming with Dexter and me to the mall for Christmas shopping and I am not going to hear one more word about it.” “But,” I say. “Not one word!” “Oh,” I say, feeling incredibly frustrated; then I start coughing again. “Cough away from...
NICO ASKS. “No, not for me, I’ll have water. Theophrastos has been teaching me. Water for thirst, wine for taste, that’s what he says. I’m thirsty. Are these cups new? I don’t recognize these cups. This is new.” His cloak. “Do you like it? Theophrastos had it made for me. It’s very good wool, ver...