The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf by Ambelin Kwaymullina
The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf by Ambelin Kwaymullina is a dystopian young adult book set 300 years after the world ended in an environmental cataclysm. In this world, people with "abilities" (some sort of magical skill that they are born with) are considered a threat to "the balance" (an idea … [Read more]
The View from Pompey's Head by Hamilton Basso
I think I learned about this novel from reading Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, but if not, something along the same lines that references this novel as examples of a Southern, urbane, low-key novel. And well, it's definitely those things. It's also a novel that spends most of the time not … [Read more]
Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner
How do you write a novel that successfully conveys a sense of overpopulation? Perhaps a stochastic structure (if a novel structure can be stochastic) is the only real way to do it. This novel, from the late 1960s, uses the population projections of the mid-century, and without the knowledge of … [Read more]
Madame Maigret's Friend by Georges Simenon
The Undiscovered Self by Carl Jung
The Hedgehog and the Fox by Isaiah Berlin
The Art of Controversy by Arthur Schopenhauer
The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
Inspector Cadaver by Georges Simenon
Mrs Bridge by Evan Connell
The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson
Hocus Pocus by Kurt Vonnegut
The Wayward Bus by John Steinbeck
Madame Maigret's Friend - 4/5 Stars I liked this Maigret more than a lot of others I've read. Our mystery involves someone being arrested with a bloody coat hanging in his closet and the burnt remains of a body in his furnace. HIs lawyer maintains that he's completely innocent of any wrongdoing … [Read more]
The Emma Project by Sonali Dev
Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review. This book almost caused a reading slump. I wasn't enjoying it and kept setting it aside and then just didn't have the energy to read anything else. I gave this book 1 star for a lot of reasons. First, … [Read more]
The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea by Axie Oh
Alright, so Iron Widow was not my jam (to my disappointment). I was really hoping that the next of my library audiobook holds would turn things around, and Axie Oh's The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea came to me next. And oh, this one is my jam. Or at any rate, it hits a lot of sweet spots for me and … [Read more]
