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Beatriz Correia beatrizcorreia9 — What a brilliant book. It's restored my faith that a sceptical and rigorous approach to language and philosophy can be combined with an utterly intuitive delight in the aesthetic - and that the aesthetic is a worthy end in itself. Not that I ever stopped believing this, but how wonderful it is to see it so beautifully demonstrated again and again in this remarkable collection of essays, lectures and occasional prose writings. I surprised myself by reading this book in a kind of fever. Usually, when I read like this, it's because the language has seduced me into a kind of addiction at the sentence level - Nabokov can do this to me, and certain books by Faulkner, sometimes, even (and this is unsexy, I know) the prose of Cardinal Newman. But it's rare for it to happen with prose so limpid, lucid, restrained. The earlier pieces are more baroque though - and I loved them. 'On the Nothingness of Personality' - this, along with much of the writing on Shakespeare and the Buddha that recurs throughout the book resonates with Borges's fictions on the nothingness of the artist and also of God ('Everything and Nothing', for example, which has always fascinated me). It's been too long since I've read the stories - I want to return to them soon. But these essays enthralled me in a different way, perhaps because they're more gossipy, more passionate, more partial. Borges denounced anti-semitism and fascism, to his own detriment; he wrote wonderful, witty capsule biographies of major writers for a woman's magazine; his casual opinions on certain books are more illuminating than many critical works. I would definitely recommend this book for the beauty of its ideas, and its revelation of a brilliant but gentle mind.

René Dyhr _ene_ — Small towns sometimes have the darkest secrets of all. Set in Dansky's home territory of North Carolina, FIREFLY RAIN is a quick-witted, spooky ride. Managing to tread the fine line between a naturally skeptic main character and some very dark moments. The story keeps a quick pace, and yet manages to be quite dark. It is also quintessentially of North Carolina-the boundaries between Southern and Northern, country and city, old and new are quite clearly explored. For a good ghost story that steps outside of the usual, take a walk through the Firefly Rain.