C.E. Medford

As far as I'm concerned, this one review has made Magic America a success in my eyes. http://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R3FL0SBZL63VFG/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_ttl?ie=UTF8&ASIN=1500385948 #amazonreview #greatreview #magicamerica #cemedford #bookreview

For anyone who is interested in magical realism, Zoe Brooks blog is probably the most comprehensive in the genre. http://magic-realism-books.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/magic-america-by-c-e-medford.html #zoebrooksreview #zoebrooksmagicamerica #magicamerica #cemedford #magicrealism #magicalrealism

I like a blogger with a social agenda. And I like a list where Magic America features alongside Dr. Seuss. Gasmask Productions Books http://bit.ly/1wJmyIZ #DrSeuss #pollution #magicamerica #environmentalism

I'm reading Annie Dillard's The Writing Life. There is certainly no shortage of writers writing books about writing - and that's not a dig - we all respond to different teachers, and even the same writer will respond differently to the same teacher at different points in their career. But I don't find it any quicker or easier to choose a writing book than a novel. So, given that Pilgrim at Tinker Creek struck me (and continues to strike me, decades after first finding it) as

There are people who won't get, won't like, get but don't like and hate your work. And there are people who get it, like it, and get behind their opinion. They're worth the other lot, ten times over. http://bit.ly/1BZT6y2 #booksandbadbitches #magicamerica #cemedford #magicamericareview

Cartilage - (KT's point of view on Marco's love life) Gina just come on into the picture like she ain’t had no beginning whatsoever - rain out of clouds on a sunny day. Once she with Marco, it was like there wasn’t never no time without her. Like God, or pain, or Brunswick Avenue, she was just always there. She snuck on in like a thief. An’ leave like a hurricane. She make The Soaps look like everyday people lives. Marco don’t like no one often. He loved only one tim