The Gates of Europe by Serhii Plokhy
This book was on sale on Audible a while back and seemed like the perfect kind of book to settle up my sense of Ukranian history. This part of the world as a whole is a big hole in my knowledge and for obvious reasons I wanted a separate history of Ukraine. The book is about as straight-forward as … [Read more]
Maria Maria and Other Stories by Marytza K. Rubio
The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories by Jamil Jan Kochai
If I Survive You by Jonathan Escoffery
Shutter by Ramona Emerson
The Bird Catcher by Gayl Jones
The Shadow Puppet by Georges Simenon
Maria Maria and other stories - 3/5 I picked up this book because it was nominated for the National Book Award, and it reminds me of how dubious I often am of story collections being nominated for fiction prizes that should probably go to novels. This is a perfectly good collection of stories, … [Read more]
Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
Oh this was so fun! Set in Coopers Chase, a posh retirement home in rural England, four retirees with formidable skills from their former professions (a civil servant/spy, a psychiatrist, a union boss, a police officer) gather every Thursday to try to solve cold case mysteries or files that still … [Read more]
Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq
Tanya Tagaq is an Inuit artist from Canada’s Arctic. She’s best known as a musician for her albums/ performances of throat singing, where she takes traditional Inuit throat singing and makes it her own; she has been nominated and won a number of Canadian music awards. In addition to music, Tagaq … [Read more]
Perfect Crime by Helen Fields
The Donor by Clare Mackintosh
Fractured by Karin Slaughter
The Perfect Crime (Helen Fields) *** Stephen Berry is having a rough night. Or a rough life, really; he cannot seem to get his bipolar disorder under control and his long-suffering girlfriend has left him. Desperate for some quiet, he intents to jump off a bridge, but a suicide counsellor who … [Read more]
One-Punch Man, Volume 1 by One
Look Back by Tatsuki Fujimoto
Goodbye, Eri by Tatsuki Fujimoto
Assassination Classroom, Volume 1 by Yusei Matsui
It might have something to do with me finding some, ahem, alternative means to reading them. What? I've tried the local library, but they're useless. I wish there was some sort of online rental alternative. Maybe your library has some comics. If you're super lucky, there's some manga included in … [Read more]
