PositiveThe Dallas NewsBrownrigg returns to Flannery and Anne\'s story in her latest, Pages for Her. Enough of its predecessor is covered by their memories that, if you didn\'t read it, you won\'t be lost ... This time around, Brownrigg spends as much time in Anne\'s head as she does in Flannery\'s, so we get an intimate perspective on how Anne\'s partner left her after nearly two decades because he wanted children and she didn\'t ... The two women don\'t cross paths until two-thirds of the way through the novel, so there\'s a lot of emotional and sensual energy packed into their reunion ... They\'re just two women who had something special once and, when the opportunity presents itself, find themselves eager to pick up where they left off.
Jonathan Taplin
PositiveThe Los Angeles Review of Books...Jonathan Taplin, director emeritus of USC’s Annenberg Innovation Lab, offers a much bleaker outlook in Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy ... Taplin is particularly concerned with the ways near-monopolies on digital distribution hurt the creative classes... He has some thoughts on how to combat the problem, largely focused on co-operative creative distribution networks that can funnel more money back to the artists rather than skimming a large percentage off the top for 'overhead' ... Move Fast and Break Things is most interesting, however, when Taplin tugs at the roots of the digital economy’s libertarian ethos ... Apart from a bit of ribbon-tying at the end, however, Stone is much more interested in how they did it than why.
Alan Moore
PositiveThe Dallas Morning NewsFans of Moore's information-dense comics, particularly From Hell or Promethea, may have an advantage in penetrating this narrative's ever-shifting perspectives. Hard-core fans, who know something of Moore's occult preoccupations, are also likely to be intrigued by some of the novel's aspects. For those unfamiliar with his work, though, Jerusalem may offer a challenge at turns frustrating and rewarding -- a novel that refuses to fit neatly into any classification other than the unclassifiable.
