A novel impossible to read for long stretches. A tour de force and an eye-opening revelation of one man’s immense… Read more JERUSALEM by Alan Moore
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PRE-APPROVED FOR HAUNTING AND OTHER STORIES
by Patrick Barb, Keylight Books, Nashville, TN, 2023 www.turnerpublishing.com This selection of short stories is the kind of horror… Read more PRE-APPROVED FOR HAUNTING AND OTHER STORIES
TOKYO UENO STATION by Miri Yu
I had to read this stream-of-consciousness novel twice for the full flavor of this gloomy yet poetic narrative that reminds… Read more TOKYO UENO STATION by Miri Yu
SHADOW TAG by Louise Erdrich
Shadow tag is the family’s game, a collaborative effort to obliterate someone’s shadow. The person or person to lose their… Read more SHADOW TAG by Louise Erdrich
NEIL STEPHENSON’S SNOW CRASH
Novel published 1992 I read this novel nearly 20 years after its publication, and as a person largely inexperienced with… Read more NEIL STEPHENSON’S SNOW CRASH
THE NIGHT WATCHMAN by Louise Edritch
Ms. Erdritch has always been my favorite Native American novelist. She has a talent for bringing to the page… Read more THE NIGHT WATCHMAN by Louise Edritch
PREFECTURE D (4 Novellas) by Hideo Yokoama JAPANESE POLICE PROCEDURALS
First published in Japan in 1998 and translated into English in 2019. “Work will be work, home will be… Read more PREFECTURE D (4 Novellas) by Hideo Yokoama JAPANESE POLICE PROCEDURALS
FIGHTING WORDS by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
We’ve had THE COLOR PURPLE, THE BLUEST EYE, and PUSH. Now a slice of the underbelly of inadequate families for… Read more FIGHTING WORDS by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
THE RAMPART TRILOGY BOOK 1:
THE BOOK OF KOLI by M. R. Carey I am impressed no end by the world-building in this novel. I… Read more THE RAMPART TRILOGY BOOK 1:
SALLY ROONEY’S NORMAL PEOPLE
NORMAL PEOPLE (Faber and Faber 2018) While Sally Rooney’s novel is in no way derivative, she appears to have fashioned… Read more SALLY ROONEY’S NORMAL PEOPLE