Shaun Bythell continues to recount his adventures as the proprietor of the Bookshop, in Wigtown, […]
Gross Anatomy, by Mara Altman
They say that the only things that are inevitable are death and taxes. This aphorism […]
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Tammy Tarng asked mystery writers about the favorite murder they ever wrote. (The New York […]
Fu Ping, by Wang Anyi
So many works of historical fiction revolve around the limited roles women had for, well, […]
A Door in the Earth, by Amy Waldman
All fiction is lies. I’m comfortable with this. But when I read Amy Waldman’s brillian […]
My Fellow Librarians, We Need Diverse Books…So Don’t Chicken Out! And Other Thoughts About Collection Building
Because librarians are, for some inexplicable reason, not given infinite budgets. We can’t buy everything, […]
The Ventriloquists, by E.R. Ramzipoor
There were some moments in E.R. Ramzipoor’s The Ventriloquists when I just had to roll […]
Singapore Sapphire, by A.M. Stuart
Harriet Gordon, who is in Singapore to start her life over, has just started a […]
The Nothing Within, by Andy Giesler
In the prologue at the beginning of The Nothing Within, by Andy Giesler, we see […]
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I’m not sure if I would read a book’s credits, but I find that I […]