Category Archives: book review
Review: Stag Dance by Torrey Peters
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: The kaleidoscopic follow-up to the bestselling Detransition, Baby In this collection of one novel and three stories, Torrey Peters’s keen eye for the rough edges of community and desire push the limits of trans writing. … Continue reading
Review: Earth 7 by Deb Olin Unferth
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: An end-of-the-world love story, an epic full of pathos and humor, asking what can be saved of our planet Well, that’s about it for the story of planet Earth, poor Earth, reduced to not … Continue reading
Review: Sublimation by Isabel J. Kim
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: Doppelgängers, corporate intrigue, heartbreak, betrayal, and the harsh permanence of the border: Sublimation is a thrilling and provocative debut for fans of Severance that asks what you’d sacrifice for a different life from award-winning author Isabel J. Kim. … Continue reading
Review: The Children by Melissa Albert
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: An intoxicating, haunting new novel from New York Times bestselling author Melissa Albert, in which the estranged adult children of a legendary author, written into their dead mother’s beloved fantasy series, contend with the … Continue reading
Review: Backstabbers by Eliza Jabore
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: When three friends lose their way in a serial killer’s old hunting ground, they must fight to survive the threat in the woods—and each other—in this spiky, heart-pounding slasher. Never turn your back on … Continue reading
Review: Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage by Belle Burden
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: It was a great love story, one for the ages. The speed of our beginning and the speed of our ending felt like matching bookends. They both came out of nowhere. He wanted it, … Continue reading
Review: Hunger and Thirst by Claire Fuller
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: 1987: After a childhood trauma and years in and out of the care system, sixteen-year-old Ursula finds herself with a new job in the postroom of a local art school, a bed in a … Continue reading
Review: House of Margins by Tlotlo Tsamaase
Buy Here: Amazon Bookshop Synopsis: Serial the podcast meets The Other Black Girl in a haunted house, as young African author disappears after being invited to an exclusive writing residency, and her sister is left only with a true crime podcast to help … Continue reading
Review: Myra Breckinridge by Gore Vidal
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: The outrageous and immortal, gender-bending and polymorphously perverse, over-the-top, and utterly on-target comic masterpiece from the bestselling author of Burr , Lincoln , and the National Book Award-winning United States . With a new introduction by Camille Paglia “I am … Continue reading
Review: The City and Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: From the bestselling author of Norwegian Wood and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World comes a love story, a quest, an ode to books and to the libraries that house them, and a parable for our … Continue reading
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