The New York Times says I'm lovely
Oct. 24th, 2014 12:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desperanceM'wife says this was worth waiting for. *twitch*
This Sunday's New York Times Book Review is online now. Inter alia, there's a column by Terrence Rafferty on recent horror fiction. I am not sure why people think my novel Being Small is horror (it isn't horror, people; if you want horror, I will give you a fallen angel skinning you alive with his fingernails: I did that once), but never mind. I do not resile from other people's opinions, any more than I assert my own. And right now, I don't mind anything, because he really liked my book.
You can read the whole review here, and I urge you to do that; it's rude to do more than lift a money quote or two, so I won't. But he does say "Horror works best when it’s about things that are actually worth being afraid of. Like Siobhan Adcock, the English writer Chaz Brenchley, who tells a bizarre coming-of-age story in his lovely short novel BEING SMALL (Per Aspera; cloth, $19.99; paper, $9.99), knows how to give some heft and gravity to the anxieties of everyday life."
And he does say "Not much of a truly horrific nature happens in “Being Small” — Brenchley’s tone is quiet, contemplative — but it’s intensely dramatic, in the way adolescent problems tend to be, in teenagers’ inward eyes. “It might be war,” Michael announces, “where only the strong survive.” Brenchley makes this tooth-and-claw battle thrilling."
The New York Times, people. Terrence Rafferty. I can live with that. Oh, and you can buy the book via this page, or from your friendly neighbourhood bookstore.
This Sunday's New York Times Book Review is online now. Inter alia, there's a column by Terrence Rafferty on recent horror fiction. I am not sure why people think my novel Being Small is horror (it isn't horror, people; if you want horror, I will give you a fallen angel skinning you alive with his fingernails: I did that once), but never mind. I do not resile from other people's opinions, any more than I assert my own. And right now, I don't mind anything, because he really liked my book.
You can read the whole review here, and I urge you to do that; it's rude to do more than lift a money quote or two, so I won't. But he does say "Horror works best when it’s about things that are actually worth being afraid of. Like Siobhan Adcock, the English writer Chaz Brenchley, who tells a bizarre coming-of-age story in his lovely short novel BEING SMALL (Per Aspera; cloth, $19.99; paper, $9.99), knows how to give some heft and gravity to the anxieties of everyday life."
And he does say "Not much of a truly horrific nature happens in “Being Small” — Brenchley’s tone is quiet, contemplative — but it’s intensely dramatic, in the way adolescent problems tend to be, in teenagers’ inward eyes. “It might be war,” Michael announces, “where only the strong survive.” Brenchley makes this tooth-and-claw battle thrilling."
The New York Times, people. Terrence Rafferty. I can live with that. Oh, and you can buy the book via this page, or from your friendly neighbourhood bookstore.