When Hervé Le Tellier bought a home in La Paillette, a hamlet in rural southeastern […]
Catch-22, by Joseph Heller
Thanks to a read along on Bluesky, I finally finished Joseph Heller’s madcap satire, Catch-22. […]
Waiting on a Friend, by Natalie Adler
There is no getting used to death, even in the midst of the AIDS epidemic. […]
Strange Beasts, by Susan J. Morris
There are few things as satisfying to me in a story than women who, after […]
The Girl With a Thousand Faces, by Sunyi Dean
Mercy Chan sought refuge in Kowloon Walled City in 1942 and never really left. Even […]
A Long Long Way, by Sebastian Barry
Trigger warning for brief description of rape and mutilation. I always read historical fiction about […]
No Man’s Land, by Richard K. Morgan
Duncan Silver’s Great War never ended; it was only the enemy that changed. After he […]
Nonesuch, by Francis Spufford
Iris Hawkins knows what she wants. She wants a fun night with a man. She […]
The Fortune Tellers of Rue Daru, by Olesya Salnikova Gilmore
In the heart of Paris, in the heart of the community of Russian exiles, Zina […]
Lavender House, by Lev AC Rosen
Trigger warning for references to suicidal ideation and depiction of suicide. We meet Evander Mills […]