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Book Review / Nonfiction & True Crime Posted on: July 30, 2019July 15, 2021

Journeys, by Stefan Zweig

Stefan Zweig’s writing seems to be everywhere since The Grand Budapest Hotel came out. Zweig […]

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Book Review / Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction Posted on: July 26, 2019July 25, 2019

Fu Ping, by Wang Anyi

So many works of historical fiction revolve around the limited roles women had for, well, […]

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Historical Fiction Posted on: July 23, 2019July 22, 2019

The Ventriloquists, by E.R. Ramzipoor

There were some moments in E.R. Ramzipoor’s The Ventriloquists when I just had to roll […]

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Book Review / Historical Fiction / Mystery Posted on: July 22, 2019July 21, 2019

Singapore Sapphire, by A.M. Stuart

Harriet Gordon, who is in Singapore to start her life over, has just started a […]

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Book Review / Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction Posted on: July 15, 2019July 14, 2019

The Lauras, by Sara Taylor

Trigger warning for sexual assault and transphobic violence. Alex is used to listening to her […]

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Book Review / Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction Posted on: July 14, 2019July 10, 2019

The Trojan War Museum and Other Stories, by Ayşe Papatka Bucak

The stories in Ayşe Papatka Bucak’s collection, The Trojan War Museum, are the kind that […]

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Book Review / Historical Fiction / Mystery Posted on: July 12, 2019July 10, 2019

Vanishing in the Haight, by Max Tomlinson

Although the title of Max Tomlinson’s Vanishing in the Haight recalls the height of the […]

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Book Review / Historical Fiction / Mystery Posted on: July 11, 2019July 8, 2019

The Boy at the Keyhole, by Stephen Giles

They say that the mind can play terrible tricks on a person. After reading The […]

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Book Review / Nonfiction & True Crime Posted on: July 5, 2019July 4, 2019

Awakenings, by Oliver Sacks

There wasn’t just an influenza pandemic at the end of World War I. There was […]

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Book Review / Historical Fiction / Mystery Posted on: July 2, 2019June 30, 2019

Murder at Archly Manor, by Sara Rosett

At the opening of Sara Rosett’s entertaining historical mystery set in 1923, Murder at Archly […]

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