I was really certain that I’d posted this review when I finished this book over a week ago, but apparently I didn’t. So apologies if my memory is a bit sketchy here… “Now there’s only me and everything else is on the periphery, just slightly out of reach or out of touch or out of time.” Mark Genevich stars in The Little Sleep (a play off Raymond Chandler’s far superior The Big Sleep). Mark is a P.I. in Boston, and suffers from narcolepsy as a result of a car accident a few years ago. Mark does not have funny, Hollywood-style narcolepsy. His is […]

Ack! This was so good! Go read it!! “On the morning of the exorcism, I stayed home from school.” Fifteen years ago, Meredith (“Merry”)’s sister Marjorie began acting…strange. Her symptoms and behavior led her family to consult a priest, and eventually landed them on a reality TV show — with the intent of broadcasting an exorcism. In present day, Merry revisits those events with a writer, as she tries to understand what really happen, and clear up the lies displayed by the show. This book was so, so good. First of all, it’s very self-aware — full of pop culture […]