The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing
"Harriet and David met each other at an office party neither had particularly wanted to go to, and both knew at once that was what they had been waiting for." A reread for me that I liked better than I thought the first time I read it, but still not as much as I might have. This novel follows a … [Read more]
God Bless you, Mr Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut
"A sum of money is a leading character in this tale about people, just as a sum of honey might properly be a leading character in a tale about bees." This is another reread for me, and one that grew in my estimation quite a bit I think. I might be unable to read all mass market paperbacks anymore … [Read more]
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
"Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge." This is a reread of Margret Atwood's Booker Prize winning novel The Blind Assassin, which was published in 2000, a few years after Alias Grace. I first read it after reading The Handmaid's Tale for a class, and then Oryx … [Read more]
Morality Play by Barry Unsworth
"It was a death that began it all and another death that led us on." There's a whole sub-genre of medieval mystery novels, but there's probably fewer medieval mystery novels about medieval mystery plays. Or in this case a mix of morality and mystery plays. Though I would bet within the 20 plus … [Read more]
The Cult of We: WeWork, Adam Neumann, and the Great Startup Delusion by Eliot Brown, Maureen Farrell
The Terra-Cotta Dog by Andrea Cammalleri
Eight Perfect Murders by Peter Swanson
Tina, Mafia Soldier by Maria Rosa Cutrufelli
The Writing Retreat by Julia Bartz
An Assassin in Utopia: The True Story of a Nineteenth-Century Sex Cult and a President's Murder by Susan Wels
Every Man a King by Walter Mosley
The Triumph of the Spider Monkey by Joyce Carol Oates
Robert B. Parker's Lullaby by Ace Atkins
The Godwulf Manuscript by Robert B. Parker
Play the Fool by Lina Chern
Man, that month went fast The Cult of We: WeWork, Adam Neumann, and the Great Startup Delusion**** I might have a lot more to say about this one had I finished it weeks ago but I'll be honest, I'm starting to hit my limit on books about tech geniuses that the public discovers aren't all they're … [Read more]
Classroom of the Elite vols 1-5 by Yuyu Ichino, Syougo Kinugasa
Classroom of the Elite might be a sign that I’m getting too old for some things. In particular, the high school set manga in which the kids are allowed to rule their schools, even to the extent of life and death (kind of but probably not really) competitions for status. The Advanced Nurturing High … [Read more]
