@bookstodon My #review of You Dreamed of Empires by Álvaro Enrigue, trans. Natasha Wimmer is now live! A fascinating Borgesian take on a crucial historical event, that makes the reader think about storytelling, fact, fiction, and the fluidity between them.
@bookstodon My #review of Mobility by Lydia Kiesling is now live! An infuriating read - but in the good way that makes you ask some hard questions with potentially uncomfortable answers.
@bookstodon My #review of Singer Distance by Ethan Chatagnier is now live! Loved the language, but the plot and the ending really undermine the whole thing.
@bookstodon My #review of Rouge by Mona Awad is now live! Darkly beautiful and intensely bittersweet, this actually managed to make me cry towards the end. That is VERY much a compliment.
@bookstodon My #review of The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry is now live! Expected a gothic or maybe folk horror story, but instead got a story about how our connections to others can change the people around us, for better and for worse. Very much a pleasant surprise.
@bookstodon My #review of The Night Ocean by Paul La Farge is now live! This was a really compelling read in ways that I hadn’t expected, but was pleasantly surprised by.
#AmReading this as #Israel commits #genocide in #Palestine and the world watches the erasure of a peoples. Salt Houses is the story of four generations of a fictional #Palestinian middle-class family through the Six Day War (1967), the First Intifada (1987), the Gulf War (1990), the Second Intifada (2000), 9/11 (2001), and the 2006 Lebanon War. #bookstodon#books#LiteraryFiction#HistoricaFiction
@bookstodon What a great little book! Lots of stuff going on so the reader needs to pay attention - #trauma, guilt, alternate realities, identity loss, cross-cultural relationships, monetizing grief and loss, #whiteguilt, and people and feelings that disappear in the furrows. Recommend it.
Going live now to talk with our faces about books and things! Maybe Algernon Blackwood, maybe Literary Fiction? Then we'll be playing @blacktabbygames's Scarlet Hollow in an hour!
Come join us on https://www.twitch.tv/chilliteracy
Have you read THE NARROW LAND (Atlantic Books) by Christine Dwyer Hickey? The novel, which won the eleventh #WalterScottPrize, explores the marriage of the artists Edward and Jo Hopper.
I just got my first review on Amazon for my first solo fiction book!
"Surreal Sci-Fi For Serious Thinkers
This novel from Cliff Jones, Jr. is my kind of science fiction novel: It's unpredictable, profound, philosophical and filled with insightful social commentary and brilliant satire on ever page.
Honestly, there are enough great ideas in this book to fill 3 other sci-fi novels, but somehow Jones manages to cram one ingenious concept after the other into every single chapter.
Once I started, I couldn't stop thinking about it until I reached the ending.
Looking forward to more great writing from this author. He's definitely a talent to watch!"
Bold, intriguing, and psychologically compelling, "Penance" is a book that will stay with you always once you read it. Perfect for readers who enjoy true crime and unreliable narrators, "Penance" is a book that will leave you speechless.
Thank you NetGalley and Harper for an advanced copy on exchange for an honest review.
10 out of 10. THE HEAVEN & EARTH GROCERY STORE by James McBride is my favorite book of 2023 so far. It's a saga, a mystery, & a tale about racism and ableism. From Penguin Random House on August 8. #ewgc@ewgc#bookstodon@bookstodon