Exit Wounds by Rutu Modan and Noah Stollman
Recently I was emailing a representative of a publisher my work deals with. We were talking about a book dealing with the 12 Day War between Iran and Israel that is coming out this fall. I mentioned I would like to find something that showed the other side of the story as well. I figure one should … [Read more]
Bog Myrtle by Sid Sharp
You know you have a problem when you spend five days of the week at your job behind the scenes at a bookstore, then on Saturday you go to the library for a “change of scenery.” But I guess it could be worse. Anyway, I was browsing the shelves, thinking that I had forgotten it was the day before … [Read more]
Land of Enchantment by Leigh Stein
I discovered Leigh Stein via her Substack, specifically this post, which hit the nail so solidly on the head that I had to see what else she had written. Land of Enchantment is the novel/memoir version of that post, sort of - it's a thoughtful, uncomfortable look at her youthful abusive relationship … [Read more]
A Terrible Intimacy: Interracial Life in the Slaveholding South by Melvin Patrick Ely
When people think of slavery in the American South, they usually imagine vast, intensely segregated plantations. However, usually Black people and their White enslavers lived cheek by jowl, and this terrible intimacy could give rise to many different kinds of tensions, as demonstrated by the six … [Read more]
The Helm of Midnight by Marina J. Lostetter
After the dangerous relic of a serial killer is stolen in a daring heist, Krona and her fellow Regulators must uncover the greater conspiracy at play and recover the mask to keep the murders starting up again from beyond the grave. Not only is this book is an intriguing mix of fantasy, suspense … [Read more]
Burn Book by Kara Swisher
My book club chose Burn Book: A Tech Love Story (2024) by Kara Swisher as our latest book. We'd already read another tech memoir, Careless People, which I enjoyed. I was hoping I would like Burn Book as well. In the end, I didn't love it. Although there were parts that were engaging, I did not have … [Read more]
