The Hidden People, by Alison Littlewood, opens with one of the brightest moments of the […]
Weather, by Jenny Offill
I understand the fuss about Jenny Offill now. Weather is an amazing work of fiction […]
Upright Women Wanted, by Sarah Gailey
The old trope of running away with the circus never really made sense to me. […]
This week (more or less) on the bookish internet
Would you like to make a bookish new year’s resolution? Abby Hargreaves has some suggestions. […]
Things in Jars, by Jess Kidd
The reviews of Things in Jars, by Jess Kidd, have been somewhat mixed. I have […]
The Record Keeper, by Agnes Gomillion
Trigger warning for physical abuse. The protagonist of Agnes Gomillion’s The Record Keeper, Arika Cobane, […]
The Oddest Books I Read in 2019
This post is inspired by a tweet I saw a few weeks ago, but can’t […]
The Romanovs, by Simon Sebag Montefiore
What better book to accompany me on the twenty-hour round trip from my home to […]
1491, by Charles Mann
Like many people who grew up in the United States, Charles Mann was taught distortions, […]
Prosper’s Demon, by K.J. Parker
When a character tells their reader that the reader will not like them, you can […]