Trigger warning for suicide. Nora Breen returns in Murder at the Spirit Lounge, by Jess […]
The Library of Amorlin, by Kalyn Josephson
I crave originality in genre fiction. Because I read so many book reviews at work […]
The Sourdough Compendium, by A.G. Slatter
Trigger warning for interpersonal violence, mutilation, rape, incest, and references to pedophilia. I’ve been a […]
Everybody’s Perfect, by Jo Walton
Jo Walton delivers a series of connected stories in Everybody’s Perfect that ask us to […]
The Name on the Wall, by Hervé Le Tellier
When Hervé Le Tellier bought a home in La Paillette, a hamlet in rural southeastern […]
Feast, by Catherine Kurtz
Trigger warning for rape, racism. At the outset of Catherine Kurtz’s troubling novel, Feast, Minha […]
Catch-22, by Joseph Heller
Thanks to a read along on Bluesky, I finally finished Joseph Heller’s madcap satire, Catch-22. […]
Commonplace book: April 2026
From A Long and Speaking Silence, by Nghi Vo: The problem was that Chih [cared]. […]