Fairy Tale by Stephen King
There’s something so simple and comforting at the heart of Fairy Tale. No psychological terror. No sexual assault. No prequels or lore. No tween orgies. It’s the story of an old man, a boy, a dog, and an incredible adventure. And it was exactly the Stephen King book I needed at the closure of a … [Read more]
Radical: My Year with a Socialist Senator by Sofia Warren
CBR15Passport Recommended by a Friend If I am halfway through Radical: My Year with a Socialist Senator, that is saying something. Only I wish Sofia Warren had said something. Or at least something interesting. I mean, I was expecting something Exciting! Flashy! Political! I was expecting a … [Read more]
The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li
Agnes is in her late twenties, married to Earl and living in America in the 1960s, when she hears about the death of her childhood friend, Fabienne. It's mentioned, almost in passing, in a letter from her mother, who still lives in Saint Remy in France, the farm village where Agnes grew up. Upon … [Read more]
The Tacky South by Katherine A. Burnett, Monica C. Miller
Popular scholarship seems to be kind of a newer genre; by this I mean essays by trained scholars that are scaled back a bit in terms of scope and depth, and done in styles that people without academic inclinations might find readable. Often, these kinds of works also tend to be on subject of … [Read more]
The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex by Charles Darwin
Back in 2020, I finished out the year by reviewing On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. Since then, I've been trying to motivate myself to work my way through Darwin's follow up: The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex. Knowing that the ideas in Descent of Man were … [Read more]
After you'd Gone by Maggie O'Farrell
After boarding a train from King's Cross to Edinburgh on a whim to see her sisters, Alice Raikes makes an abrupt about turn and heads back home. Shortly after, she steps in front of a car. She's taken to hospital, but she's in a coma and it doesn't look good. What did she see at that Scottish train … [Read more]
