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Review: The Room
The Room by Jonas Karlsson My rating: 3 of 5 stars This was a good, entertaining read. I think I expected it to be more funny, but for a story from Sweden, where the stories I’ve read tend toward the...
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Review: A Hoarse Half-human Cheer
A Hoarse Half-human Cheer by X.J. Kennedy My rating: 4 of 5 stars A Hoarse, Half-Human Cheer was a real hoot. You may find yourself speaking like this after emerging from the book, blinking in the...
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Review: Eeny Meeny
Eeny Meeny by M.J. Arlidge My rating: 4 of 5 stars I got this book as an advance reader copy through NetGalley. Eeny Meeny is a a pretty great, fast-paced read. The suspense and tension is built...
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Review: The Fixer
The Fixer by Joseph Finder My rating: 3 of 5 stars I got a copy of this through First to Read, Penguin’s advance copy program. I was super excited because Joseph Finder seems like a really nice guy...
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Review: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami My rating: 3 of 5 stars View all my reviews
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Review: The Strange Library
The Strange Library by Haruki Murakami My rating: 4 of 5 stars This was a fun little fairy tale of a romp, if your romps involve you getting locked up in the basement of a library and being forced to...
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Review: The Ghost of Plenty
The Ghost of Plenty by Gerald McCormack My rating: 5 of 5 stars Loved this story — very funny alternating diary entries from the perspective of the well-meaning but bumbling English landlord of an...
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Review: The Ghost of Plenty
The Ghost of Plenty by Gerald McCormack My rating: 5 of 5 stars Loved this story — very funny alternating diary entries from the perspective of the well-meaning but bumbling English landlord of an...
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Review: Foucault, in Winter, in the Linnaeus Garden
Foucault, in Winter, in the Linnaeus Garden by Michael Joyce My rating: 4 of 5 stars Look, I’m biased. I think Michael Joyce is an amazing stylist, one of the most beautifully elegiac writers working...
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Review: Station Eleven
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel My rating: 5 of 5 stars Oh man, oh man oh man. I loved this book.In fact, a few weeks after finishing it I was sitting on a concrete step watching a concert...
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Review: I Am Pilgrim
I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes My rating: 4 of 5 stars Loved this book, a perfect summer read as we gallivanted from Ireland to Massachusetts. I can’t tell you what I was doing there, other than reading...
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Review: Eileen
Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh My rating: 4 of 5 stars I really enjoyed the narrator’s voice in this book. It reminded me a little of Lisa O’Donnell’s _The Death of Bees_, but with an older narrator...
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Review: The Cold Cold Ground
The Cold Cold Ground by Adrian McKinty My rating: 4 of 5 stars Another rollicking read from Adrian McKinty, who captures the grit and humor and sucks you into the story like few others.Can’t wait to...
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Review: Strings
Strings by G. Miki Hayden My rating: 2 of 5 stars I was thinking this might be a modern-day Wrinkle in Time for the kids to read, but it wasn’t quite there, didn’t quite grab in the same way.It seemed...
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Review: The Intern’s Handbook
The Intern’s Handbook by Shane Kuhn My rating: 4 of 5 stars This was another great, entertaining summer read. I thought the diary/handbook-like voice worked well with this hard-boiled, rough and...
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Review: A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing
A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing by Eimear McBride My rating: 5 of 5 stars This was a beautiful, raw book. Look, I’m a little slow, and I needed, like a hot bath or something, some time to ease in. In...
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Review: Touch
Touch by Claire North My rating: 5 of 5 stars Like her own creation, Kepler, I felt like, when I touched the pages of this book, I, too became something else, someone else. The Reader. The book was...
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Review: A Dirty Job
A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore My rating: 2 of 5 stars I normally love Christopher Moore and his writing style, but I just didn’t find this one as engaging. It’s set in San Francisco, his new(ish)...
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Review: Armada
Armada by Ernest Cline My rating: 1 of 5 stars I found this one really tough to get through. I enjoyed Ready Player One, and that’s why I grabbed this book the second I saw it available.But even as...
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Review: Press Start to Play
Press Start to Play by Daniel H. Wilson My rating: 2 of 5 stars I was sucked in by the vibrant colors of the cover and the promise of fictional video game nostalgia, I’ll admit.I enjoyed “God Mode,”...
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