Jean-Marie Valaise should have listened to another king at the outset of Frédéric Dard’s The King of […]
Cultivating My Bookish Garden; Or, Is My Library Woke Yet?
Every couple of weeks, I run a report in my library’s integrated library system* that […]
Impossible Views of the World, by Lucy Ives
Perhaps the only immutable rule of writing is not wasting the reader’s time. Lucy Ives […]
The Tragedy of Brady Sims, by Ernest J. Gaines
It’s rare to find a book that is not only a book that needs to […]
The History of Bees, by Maja Lunde
Bees have fascinated humans for centuries, I suppose, because it’s unsettling to see such small […]
Marathon Man, by William Goldman
William Goldman’s Marathon Man wasn’t half bad. Unfortunately, the other half was. I picked this book up […]
The Essex Serpent, by Sarah Perry
I’ve been hearing about The Essex Serpent, by Sarah Perry, for over a year. I was […]
Do Not Say We Have Nothing, by Madeleine Thien
The Japanese proverb, “The nail that sticks out shall be hammered down,” kept popping into […]
Among the Survivors, by Ann Z. Leventhal
I don’t mind unlikeable characters. As long as I can understand their actions, I can […]