@bookstodon My #review of You Dreamed of Empires by Álvaro Enrigue, trans. Natasha Wimmer is now live! A fascinating Borgesian take on a crucial historical event, that makes the reader think about storytelling, fact, fiction, and the fluidity between them.
@bookstodon My #review of Mobility by Lydia Kiesling is now live! An infuriating read - but in the good way that makes you ask some hard questions with potentially uncomfortable answers.
@bookstodon My #review of Singer Distance by Ethan Chatagnier is now live! Loved the language, but the plot and the ending really undermine the whole thing.
@bookstodon My #review of Rouge by Mona Awad is now live! Darkly beautiful and intensely bittersweet, this actually managed to make me cry towards the end. That is VERY much a compliment.
@bookstodon My #review of The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry is now live! Expected a gothic or maybe folk horror story, but instead got a story about how our connections to others can change the people around us, for better and for worse. Very much a pleasant surprise.
@bookstodon My #review of The Night Ocean by Paul La Farge is now live! This was a really compelling read in ways that I hadn’t expected, but was pleasantly surprised by.
@bookstodon What a great little book! Lots of stuff going on so the reader needs to pay attention - #trauma, guilt, alternate realities, identity loss, cross-cultural relationships, monetizing grief and loss, #whiteguilt, and people and feelings that disappear in the furrows. Recommend it.
10 out of 10. THE HEAVEN & EARTH GROCERY STORE by James McBride is my favorite book of 2023 so far. It's a saga, a mystery, & a tale about racism and ableism. From Penguin Random House on August 8. #ewgc@ewgc#bookstodon@bookstodon