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DEBUTING AT TCAF 2018 - THE TURTLE LIBRARY COMICS MAGAZINE by christopher green
An import from the world of the Turtle Library, this 38-page full color comics magazine contains a fully playable book-based board game, an 2D playset with a fully-articulated cut-out figure, coloring pages, a letters and art section, and of course pages and pages of exciting comics suitable for all ages!
Exhibiting Creator: christopher green Publisher: Self-Published Price: $12 CAD
Representation of the Dancing Girls on the Coast of Coromandel, Christopher Green, c. 1800.
Am I the only one who is love with Chris' new haircut??
Book Review: Takeout Sushi by Christopher Green
Endearing short stories infused with a unique Japanese flavor. I’m excited to share my book review for Takeout Sushi by Christopher Green. Many thanks to @The_WriteReads and @NeemTreePress for gifting me a review copy and allowing me to participate in the blog tour. Title: Takeout Sushi Author: Christopher Green Publisher: Neem Tree Press Genre: Contemporary Short Story Collection Length:…
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Review: Takeout Sushi by Christopher Green
I rarely read short story collections because I find them so hard to review as books. Obviously I'm going to like some of the stories more than others and therefore, the whole thing becomes a bit of a balancing act. However, this one stood out to me as something I'd enjoy because most of them are set in Japan and comment on Japanese culture, which is really interesting to me. Thank you to The WriteReads for allowing me to join the blog tour for it!
Takeout Sushi features 17 short stories each with a matching illustration. The stories focus on social interactions, corporate life, displacement, loneliness and more.
Each of the stories are prefaced by a simple line illustration by Rebecca Purton. They give a flavour of what's to come and I would have loved to have seen them in colour for that extra bit of life in the stories.
The opening story Swallows has a melancholic tone as it sees a couple who want different things in life. Matsu has always done the things that Tsune wants to do, so while she is full of wonder about certain things like the swallow nest in their building, he is bored by it. Although the ending is sad, there is an inevitability there.
Moving on to Burned, which is a funny story with a clumsy narrator. It's an honest, unromantic look at long term relationships in an amusing voice.
Spinning Wheels is a dark cynical satirical view of corporate life and how dangerous technology can be. It's a narrative where robots take over and how that could potentially play out. It's about being undervalued at work and how big companies value profit and efficiency over people and experiences.
The Choice is a strange story with a funny ending. It's about making choices and how sometimes choices are made for us. It is perhaps the most philosophical in the collection but still uses the dry style of the rest of the collection.
Swirl is a sad yet triumphant story of a widow who discovers that her late husband had another life as a poet, when he posthumously wins a haiku competition. There are mixed feelings of grief, anger and victory against him at the end as she is annoyed that he kept it from her and appears to have been inspired by a past that doesn't include her.
Like Burned, Crimes For Dummies is centred on an idiotic character. It has a very abrupt ending and that was really jarring.
Bodies is a story of introversion and a character finding their feet as an immigrant. There is a really lovely, satisfying, happy ending.
Magpie Man is a story of redemption and realising you were wrong. Much like the previous narrative, it's about feeling out of place in a foreign country.
In Apartment 601, there is a strange, unsettling vibe that has an unexpected dull ending. I really wanted some more darkness from this one because it had the potential!
The Tree is a story of neighbours and the effects of unemployment. It's a small contained story that perhaps has much more going on internally than what we see on the page.
Misdirection sees a classic anxiety dream come true, when the narrator meets a stranger who he previously gave wrong directions to. I definitely felt that anxiety in the writing and that character could have become really relatable, had I spent more time with them.
Plastic Irises explores feelings of loneliness and the disrupting of social norms within a big city, as the narrator is thrown out of a cafe for talking to strangers. It's also about transitioning between life stages, as the narrator has recently entered retirement.
The Jogger is a funny story about giving in to temptation, as the narrator steals a stranger's luxury car and goes for a joyride. The anxiety builds and then it gently puts you back down with a 'd'oh!'.
The collection then shifts to a group of stories set in other places and times than contemporary Japan. I'm not sure these stories really belong in this collection and would have perhaps been more appreciated in another book entirely.
Venus is about a painting that has been hidden from public view for decades and is finally unveiled. The story has a really poignant, sweet reveal at the end.
Henry Sparkles is a moving story set during World War One, following the relationship between a young artist and a sparrowhawk that he raises. I could feel the sorrow and fear that war brings as well as how it lingers but Barney the sparrowhawk felt like a symbol of hope.
The Pool is a strange tale of grief and obsession, told by a haunted soul.
Anything But Nice sees a woman with an odd obsession with a particular model of Citroen due to a man who ghosted her years before. She ends up letting go of her attachment to both the car and him.
Takeout Sushi is simply written and Green's style is very matter-of-fact. There isn't much in the way of description but as these little slice of life snapshots are so character focused, I'm not sure it matters so much. I don't think short stories as a format are really for me because I always end up wanting more but I did enjoy some of these stories a lot, so I'd recommend it if you like short stories.
Takeout Sushi by Christopher Green will be published by Neem Tree Press on 2nd May 2024.
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Character notes for entropy’s twilight main characters!
