In My Hysterical Opinion: here we put down the books we've been tearing through at compulsively high speed, passing days and nights curled in a ball on a chair without food or water to sustain us. With our hair sticking up and our glasses clouding over we break to dash to the computer and embed our impressions here - what is stupid, what is brilliant, what is true for our complex world. No stuffed shirts declaring what is good or bad here. And with grateful thanks to all those wonderful women writers who have died screaming to bring us many of our favourites.
Nette and Rascal are the co-creators of IMHystericalO Review. They'll be prying themselves away from their books to update this site on a regular basis.
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The Art of Becoming More by john blackbird This past weekend I travelled to the 9th Westerwald Pow wow in Lahnstein, Germany. As I walked from the parking lot to the entrance of the Stadthalle, I was met by a guy, an older gentlemen. This guy says "Hi, are you a really Indianer?" I nod, smile and say "Ya." This guy then points to the Stadthalle, and asks me "You go to this sheisse?" I nod ... 
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Tuk and the Whale by Raquel Rivera Welcome to the IMHO web-launch for Tuk and the Whale! This book is inspired by, among other things, one of my favourite "Classics Illustrated" comic books I read as a kid, based on Herman Melville's Moby Dick; or, The Whale. What was it about that story of crazed revenge that captured my imagination so? Was it the sinister figure of ...
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Small Island by Andrea Levy When you find a good novel, it's like another person has entered the room and becomes a friend you look forward to spending time with. Like a real person, Small Island is full of contradictions. It is both intimate and objective. It is complicated in structure in terms of time line and point of view, but beautifully easy to read. ...
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