4.5 stars. Genre bending fiction is my favorite when it’s done right. I’m especially a sucker for the mystery genre being smushed with other genres, so I was really excited to find that this mostly standalone sequel to a Planetfall, a favorite from January, was a science fiction/thriller/mystery. It’s hard to talk about it because I’m still pretty blown away by how much I loved After Atlas. First things first, you can read this without reading Planetfall, but there is an extra layer of meaning […]
The facts are in evidence, but the truth is never told
His Bloody Project, nominated for the Man Booker Prize in 2016, is one of those great books that makes you wonder if it’s a true story, a fictionalised account, or just completely made up by the author. After reading the first bit, I actually went to read some reviews (which I never do in advance) to find out for sure. Graeme Mcrae Burnet’s main character—who’s “project” is the subject of the book—is Roderick John Mcrae, or Roddy as he’s called, so it seems entirely plausible that the […]
A boy and his parrot.
I’m a fan of a Michael Chabon. “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay” is an amazing book. “Telegraph Avenue” is one of my favorites as well. Those are serious tomes, so I was interested in reading this little book to see how he manages to encapsulate his general style of verbose prose into a novella. In 1944, a retired British detective in his twilight years is raising bees at his small cottage in the English countryside. He becomes involved in the investigation of a […]
Not as enraptured the second time around
I want to say I was introduced to Altered Carbon around 2007. I do remember that by the time it came into my hands the entire trilogy was out so I was able to blitz through all three. At the time I loved it and couldn’t put the books down. When I heard that Netflix was doing an adaptation, I was pretty excited from the remembered enjoyment of reading it. Then a blog talked about the problems of any adaptation to the book. Namely that a guy […]
A new series to love while Tana French is writing her next book
3.5 stars. So glad to be able to say that I enjoyed this one almost as much as the first. It’s always a scary thing to read an author’s second book when the first was so beloved. Luckily, Harper knows what she’s doing and makes quality mystery writing look easy. We’re back with Federal Police Agent Aaron Falk for this book. He’s gone back to the city in his regular job with the feds, sniffing out money laundering, etc. When one of his informants goes […]
Precocity, Poison, and Pie
I think every review of the Flavia de Luce books contains the word “precocious” in it somewhere. Flavia is no ordinary 11-year-old. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie is the first book in this mystery series, and introduces chemistry whiz, poison-obsessed Flavia, her widowed father, her two sisters, their retainer Dogger, and their housekeeper Mrs. Mullett. The de Luces own a slightly dilapidated country home in 1950s England. At the start of the novel, Flavia overhears her father arguing with a strange man, […]
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