Philip Schott’s slight book, The Accidental Veterinarian, is a collection of posts from his blog, […]
The Painted Veil, by W. Somerset Maugham
Kitty Fane is a terrible judge of character. For most of her life, she believes […]
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, by Anne Fadiman
In the 1970s, after the end of the Laotian Civil War, tens of thousands of […]
Booknip & Bookbane, Part II
Back in May 2016, I wrote a post that rounded up the things that instantly […]
The Oyster Thief, by Sonia Faruqi
They say over and over again in Sonia Faruqi’s The Oyster Thief, that fire and […]
The Silent Patient, by Alex Michaelides
There is a lot that is unsettling about The Silent Patient, by Alex Michaelides. First, […]
The Alice Network, by Kate Quinn
The beginning and the end of Kate Quinn’s thrilling The Alice Network seem like two […]
This week on the bookish internet
Do you need to pare down your book collection but don’t know how to do […]
Amnesty, by Lara Elena Donnelly
See my reviews of the first two books in the Amberlough Dossier trilogy: Amberlough and […]