Sliver by Ira Levin
I grabbed this book at a book fair for free. It was not free so much as the book fair had a deal where you could bring a bag in and they would charge you five dollars to fill the bag up. So this book was more or less free, and given how thin the book was, and how over stuffed the bag was, like I … [Read more]
The Dawnhounds by Sascha Stronach
I don’t even know how to begin describing this book. It’s like mashing a noir detective novel with a queer pirate fantasy and adding in a dash of horror. It’s weird and sort of wonderful and while parts didn’t work for me, the ones that did worked really, really well. While this is the first in a … [Read more]
Superman Son of Kal-El Vol. 1: The Truth by Tom Taylor, John Timms
A couple of weeks ago, I got a surprise delivery — a book I had ordered back in January and completely forgotten about. And it took me a minute to remember why I had ordered it. I do enjoy comics/graphic novels, but usually Superman is not one of my “must reads.” But last year DC Comics introduced a … [Read more]
Election by Tom Perrotta
Tracy Flick Can't Win by Tom Perrotta
Little Children by Tom Perrotta
Election I wanted to reread Election, even though I read it a few years ago, because they produced an audiobook version of it in connection to the sequel coming out. Election is still very very funny and insightful, and one of the few books that I read where it actual feels like the person … [Read more]
The Old Gringo by Carlos Fuentes
The Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and Other Stories by Ambrose Bierce
The Old Gringo This is a 1985 novel by Carlos Fuentes. It takes place in the middle of the Mexican Revolution and begins with a stranger coming to town. The stranger is referred to as the "Gringo" or the ""old Gringo" for the entirety of the novel, and we're told first what everyone in the town … [Read more]
The Hacienda by Isabel Cañas
I’ve been waiting to get my hands on a copy of The Hacienda since January. I expected gothic horror, and what I got was a full-on haunted house story. Set in Mexico just after the Mexican War of Independence, the scars of that war are visible everywhere. Beatriz, our main character, is forced to … [Read more]
