Category Archives: literary book review
Review: Ashland by Dan Simon
Buy it here: Amazon, Booshop Synopsis: A deeply moving family story unfolding in richly evocative prose and a poetic portrayal of a town in decline during the final decades of the American century, Ashland is a book of metamorphoses—of the dance between … Continue reading
Review: Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt by Ben Reeves
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: Travis is Death in the modern world. He wears jeans and a T-shirt and lives in a small, grey town. His job is to offer people comfort in their final hours of life. He’s … Continue reading
Review: Moderation by Elaine Castillo
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: A bold and inventive novel about real romance in the virtual workplace—bringing Castillo’s trademark wit and sharp cultural criticism to an irresistible story about the possible future of love. Girlie Delmundo is the greatest … Continue reading
Review: The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: Eric Sanderson wakes up in a house one day with no idea who or where he is. A note instructs him to see a Dr. Randle immediately, who informs him that he is undergoing … Continue reading
Review: I’m Losing You by Bruce Wagner
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: An epic novel that brings together a motley crew of characters, including porn stars in love, celebrity chore-whores, plotting dermatologists, masseurs, and shrinks, among many others cast in the debauchery of Hollywood. I’m Losing … Continue reading
Review: Honey by Imani Thompson
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: A wickedly funny, adrenaline-rush of a novel about a graduate student who murders bad men and justifies it in the name of feminism, by a bold new voice in fiction Yrsa is in a … Continue reading
Review: Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: Milwaukee 1932, the Great Depression going full blast, repeal of Prohibition just around the corner, Al Capone in the federal pen, the private investigation business shifting from labor-management relations to the more domestic kind. … Continue reading
Review: Annie Bot by Sierra Greer
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: Annie Bot was created to be the perfect girlfriend for her human owner, Doug. Designed to satisfy his emotional and physical needs, she has dinner ready for him every night, wears the cute outfits … Continue reading
Review: The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: Humankind discovers intelligent life in an octopus species with its own language and culture, and sets off a high-stakes global competition to dominate the future. Rumors begin to spread of a species of hyperintelligent, … Continue reading
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