All the Ms: Malouf to Malone

Malouf, David: David Malouf is one of the great authors that I thought I’d heard of but didn’t put into context until I started this project. An Imaginary Life starts with an italicized prologue and then the use of the singular and plural first-person with no clear name, so, frankly, I was prepared to dismiss the book. But it actually caught my interest, being a story about Ovid and a child raised in the wild. From this list, it is one of 1/4 or so that I actually went on to complete! 

Malmquist, Tom: In Every Moment We Are Still Alive sounds, uh, rather pompous and that was honestly my initial opinion since the book uses a kind of stream-of-consciousness format (no quotation marks for quotes). However, the topic is quite practical and day-to-day, if sad since it begins in a hospital. 

Malone, Jen: 12-year-old girls get up to craziness in The Sleepover. Clever beginning with a decent narrator! And it reminded me how much I disliked sleepovers as a teen. I wasn’t scared. I simply preferred then and now to sleep in my own bed. There is something, even now, utterly satisfying about returning home. Sometimes, I think that is the primary reason I go to work...so I can go home. 

Malone, Michael: First Lady is police procedural meets James Faulkner: police case with reflections on the South.