Agent Palmer

“I am tired, so very tired of thinking about Lacey Yeager, yet I worry that unless I write her story down, and see it bound and tidy on my bookshelf, I will be unable to write about anything else.”

Is Raymond Gunt the worst person ever? At a minimum, he’s had some help…

This book’s main character, Raymond Gunt, may in fact be the worst person ever, or he may just be proof that assumptions and a lack of context make for the worst in people. Truth be told, that’s probably and sadly more common than we’d all like to think.

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole, “The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel featuring Ignatius Reilly and his marvelous, madcap adventures in New Orleans,” is something unique to behold, and it is definitely worth holding.

There are quite a few stories within this book, including a book within a book that’s quite the read, but I’ll get to that in a moment. October Light, written by James Gardner, is based on two very specific things; a conflict between an old man and an old woman, as well as pieces of a fictional book that we read along with one of the characters.

“Vancouver is falling down–crumbling into sand. To save it, Astrid O’Brien boards a bus to a parallel dimension, there to confront the demons of the city, and to answer the question: Are we who we’re told we are, or who we decide to be?” This is the back cover synopsis for Andrew Cownden’s debut novel Astrid Falls: A Legend of Vancouver. And it is not a book to skip, but one to read and discuss with friends. Who are you?…