WOW: Sue Lange
Welcome to another Women on Wednesday! If you’re new around here, click on the tab above. Yeah, the one marked Women on Wednesday.
In a nutshell, it goes like this: Feature a woman author or a book written by a woman on your blog. Leave your link in the comments. Go visit everyone else. Make friends. Influence society.
My pick this week may seem to be from left-field. Those of you who know me well know that I love left field. (SO much better than right or center field. And let’s not even discuss the dreaded infield.)
But in my world, there’s nothing unusual about Sue Lange, fellow Pennwriter and Pennsylvanian. We’ll even forgive her for living on the wrong side of the state.
Sue runs the BookView Cafe. Or else she’s really very involved; I’m not sure which. All I know is that she’s published short stories. She’s published novels.
Last week, she popped a link into my Win a Book inbox. She was giving away free digital copies of her anthology, Uncategorized.
So… I took her up on the offer. Why not? I’ve got an e-reader now. It’s free. And I’m overdue to read her works.
I haven’t finished the stories here yet. But from the start, as soon as I got into her narrative voice — which is a far cry from the chatty, friendly narrative I’ve been reading a lot of (minus the Cody McFadyen book I finished this week) — I fell in love with Sue’s works. She creates worlds that are ugly, gritty. They’re urban in feel even when the setting is elsewhere. And she puts her characters in hard places.
Best of all, there are twists at the end of some of these pieces that you don’t see coming. Or if you do, they still manage to shock. And make you think.
That latter, I think, is Sue’s intent.
One final note about Uncategorized: like my Demo Tapes, Sue provides an introduction to each story. Unlike The Demo Tapes, the intro isn’t longer than the story at times. (If you’ve read the Demo Tapes, you get it. If not, what are you waiting for?)
Pick it up. Check it out. And leave me some cool links. My wishlist is just over 1900 books now. I’d love to add more.
Hi Susan!
November 25th, 2009 at 9:58 amMy pick is a bit different of course..
Check it at The Burton Review
Good. I like different!
November 25th, 2009 at 9:59 amA WOW post on my blog
November 25th, 2009 at 11:58 amI’ve been out of town today and just got home a little while ago. I’m a little late in the day, but I wanted to share in this week’s WOW.
http://lovelylissie.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/women-on-wednesday-kim-edwards/
November 26th, 2009 at 12:55 amHere’s my pick: http://teddyrose.blogspot.com/2009/11/age-of-innocence-by-edith-wharton.html
November 26th, 2009 at 1:46 am[...] The Demo Tapes do!) via Smashwords. It’s called Uncategorized, and yes, I’ve read it. (here are some of my thoughts, in case you missed them) For a whopping $1.99, you can read it, too. AND help make a donation to [...]
January 22nd, 2010 at 1:53 pm[...] “[Lange] creates worlds that are ugly, gritty. They’re urban in feel even when the setting is elsewhere. And she puts her characters in hard places. est of all, there are twists at the end of some of these pieces that you don’t see coming. Or if you do, they still manage to shock. And make you think.” —West of Mars [...]
November 25th, 2011 at 5:35 am