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Fiction Reviews Dump

She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chain

Another Place You've Never Been by Rebecca Kauffman

The Idiot by Elif Batuman

Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

Too Bright to Hear Too Loud to See by Juliann Garey

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk

Dietland by Sarai Walker

A Good Neighborhood by Therese Anne Fowler

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Apologies in advance, and I hope I can be forgiven for the end-of-the-year review dump. I’ve had bits and pieces to say about the books I read but it never felt well-formed enough to tell others about them. So, here we go, a review dump of some of the fiction I read this year.  A Good Neighborhood |  Therese Anne Fowler We’ve all been reading long enough to know that a book titled A Good Neighborhood is not actually about a good neighborhood. It’s about […]

“Winter mornings are made of steel; they have a metallic taste and sharp edges. On a Wednesday in January, at seven in the morning, it’s plain to see that the world was not made for Man, and definitely not for his comfort or pleasure.”

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk, Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator)

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The Reading Women Challenge for 2021 (its last year, as it turns out) contains two challenges which surprisingly caused me some consternation – I didn’t have anything in my nearly 600 book deep to read list that was a book written by an Eastern European woman and/or a crime novel or thriller in translation. I spent time on and off all year hunting up a book that could work for both – it had to be out there and the whole point of this is […]

Real Life Takes Place in Movement

Flights by Olga Tokarczuk

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An elderly professor gives lectures on Greek history on a cruise ship, a Polish family vacations in Croatia with dramatic consequences, an immigrant tries to build a new life on a remote island in the north. In the 17th century, Filip Verheyen discovers the Achilles tendon, and Frederik Ruysch revolutionizes embalming techniques, while today, plastination makes it possible to preserve bodies in an incredibly detailed and lifelike fashion. These are just some of the stories told in this book, and in between, there are musings […]

I am already at an age and additionally in a state where I must always wash my feet thoroughly before bed, in the event of having to be removed by an ambulance in the Night.

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk

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I hate when I ask myself the question “Who does this remind me of?” and my brain goes right to another person who shares various demographic features with the current writer? Oh, so you’re saying EVERY writer from Japan reminds you of Murakami? Why’s that! No reason I swear! But hear I am fine with it. This is like a Magda Szabo novel that takes place is a Milan Kundera world. It’s a strange and bizarre world in a Polish town on the Czechia border […]

The Tygers of Wrath Are Wiser Than the Horses of Instruction

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk

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A series of gruesome deaths occurs in a remote corner of southwestern Poland. Janina, an elderly woman who spends her time on astrology, translating William Blake, and animal rights, is convinced that the victims, all of them hunters, were murdered by animals taking revenge. Many elements of a conventional murder mystery can be found in this book: a revenge plot, someone taking justice into their own hands, means and opportunity aligning perfectly in a single moment. Others, like a true investigation or a pool of […]



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