Sunday, August 20, 2006
REVIEW: Now You See It…Cokesville, PA
This collection of short stories by writer Bathsheba Monk is just that, too short. Maybe this is because she has created characters so close to those we here at Hazleton Pravda run into on a daily bases in and around the coal cracker region. Her stories are populated by vivid denizens and some seemingly tongue in cheek humor. She does justice to our plight of being backwater fools hung up by vice and a looking to leave but not knowing rightly how. Her comments on the backwoods behaviors of the people of this region should be taken to heart, not in anger, but in an attempt for us all to grow up and rise up above our complacent foolish behaviors and attitudes. Read a book people! Read ‘Now You See It…’ It’s entertaining and evocative! You may learn something about yourself.
This collection of short stories by writer Bathsheba Monk is just that, too short. Maybe this is because she has created characters so close to those we here at Hazleton Pravda run into on a daily bases in and around the coal cracker region. Her stories are populated by vivid denizens and some seemingly tongue in cheek humor. She does justice to our plight of being backwater fools hung up by vice and a looking to leave but not knowing rightly how. Her comments on the backwoods behaviors of the people of this region should be taken to heart, not in anger, but in an attempt for us all to grow up and rise up above our complacent foolish behaviors and attitudes. Read a book people! Read ‘Now You See It…’ It’s entertaining and evocative! You may learn something about yourself.
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