What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher
Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review. Wow. This was so good. It could have been 100 pages longer and I wouldn't have noticed. This was a great twist on "The Fall of the House of Usher" and I loved every second of it. "What Moves the Dead" … [Read more]
Abundance by Jacob Guanzon
This book is the heartbreaking tale of Henry, and ex-con living in his truck with his son, Henry junior (Junior). The novel opens on Junior's 8th birthday, but it jumps back and forth in time to explain how Henry and his son came to be living in a truck, desperately counting change at a McDonald's … [Read more]
I Am Dynamite!: A Life of Friedrich Nietzsche by Sue Prideaux
Part of the reason I decided to pick up I Am Dynamite!: A Life of Friedrich Nietzsche was its premise: most books written about Friedrich Nietzsche tend to focus on the man's writings and philosophy first, and then the man second. If at all. But this is not the case for Sue Prideaux’s … [Read more]
The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu, Ken Liu (translator)
It was impossible to expect a moral awakening from humankind itself, just like it was impossible to expect humans to lift off the earth by pulling up on their own hair. To achieve moral awakening required a force outside the human race. This thought determined the entire direction of Ye's … [Read more]
A Winter's Promise by Christelle Dabos
A Winter's Promise by Christelle Dabos is the first in a quartet of of fantasy YA novels called The Mirror Visitor Series. Thankfully, somebody decided this book was good enough to be translated from the French for us American readers. The story is set in a future world where people live on … [Read more]
Kamila Knows Best by Farah Heron
Here we have an Emma retelling, by Farah Heron of Accidentally Engaged fame. I admitted did not finish said book, but I am well documented as reading any and all Jane Austen fic that comes my way so here we were, reading a South Asian retelling of the seminal Austen work. Emma Woodhouse, handsome, … [Read more]
