Scary Monsters by Michelle de Kretser
Michelle de Krester gives the reader a (granted, limited) choice in this duology packaged as a single book - you can read these stories, each essentially a novel in itself, in whichever order you prefer. One is called "Lili", and set in the early 1980s. The other is called "Lyle" and set in the near … [Read more]
Magic Binds (Kate Daniels, #9) by Ilona Andrews
This is my favorite one of these so far. Everything is finally coming together. This is also actually the first of these books where I feel emotionally invested in Kate/Curran as a couple, which is kind of mind-boggling if you think about it. I'm really not reading this for the romance, but the … [Read more]
The Flanders Road by Claude Simon
CBR15Passport Flanders OK, let me just put this out there. Unconstructed prose is not my jam. Page after page with no structure, no punctuation, no paragraphs, OK, no. Looking at you James Joyce. Dubliners? Love. Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man? Well OK. Finnigan’s Wake? OK, now we … [Read more]
Death of a Dancing Queen by Kimberly G. Giarratano
CW: This book has a tragic trans angle. I won't spoil how and while I think the writer handled it well enough, it still touches on some worn tropes that could be hard for some. Please be warned. They say that if you like to write, write a book you'd want to read. I had no hand in writing Death of … [Read more]
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All by Allan Gurganus
"Died on me finally. He had to." Did everyone in America watch the made for tv movie of this book in 1994 starring Cicely Tyson, Diane Lane, Anne Bancroft, and Donald Sutherland, or was it just our family? We watched it and it was one of those big family moment things, even though, a) we probably … [Read more]
The Angel Maker by Alex North
Katie and her brother Chris have had a strained relationship ever since the brutal attack on Chris that changed their lives forever. Decades later, it might be too late to fix things when Chris goes missing. In this book, we are introduced to two separate mysteries that inevitably wind together - … [Read more]
