Paul Constant reports that a Seattle bookstore is doing something radical: organizing books by mood. […]
Children of Chicago, by Cynthia Pelayo
When we describe someone as haunted, we usually mean that they exhibit a palpable sadness […]
The Echo Wife, by Sarah Gailey
The celebration at the beginning of Sarah Gailey’s novel, The Echo Wife, doesn’t feel like […]
Faust Should’ve Taken a Humanities Course
I’m going to publish a review for Sarah Gailey’s The Echo Wife tomorrow—but first, I […]
All the Cowboys Ain’t Gone, by John J. Jacobson
Lincoln Smith was born in the wrong time period. He would have done just fine […]
On Fragile Waves, by E. Lily Yu
Stories like E. Lily Yu’s wrenching novel, On Fragile Waves, help explain why home is […]
The Vanishing Half, by Brit Bennett
Trigger warning for brief depictions of domestic violence and racism. Set over thirty years in […]
These are a few of my favorite (bookish) things
This post was inspired by an r/libraries thread started by another librarian. I love my […]
