@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.
Going live now to talk with our faces about books and things! Maybe Algernon Blackwood, maybe Literary Fiction? Then we'll be playing @blacktabbygames's Scarlet Hollow in an hour!
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Have you read THE NARROW LAND (Atlantic Books) by Christine Dwyer Hickey? The novel, which won the eleventh #WalterScottPrize, explores the marriage of the artists Edward and Jo Hopper.
I started Demon Copperhead at the beginning of July, but put it down b/c several library books came in. I’m back at it & it’s definitely a good one. #friday#books#kindle#fiction#amreading@bookstodon
@likewise@bookstodon Kingsolver deserved the #PulitzerPrize for Demon Copperhead. She hits so many issues related to poverty and inequality and the corporatization of human services such as foster care. Demon is a totally wonderful character who makes the reader cheer for him from the beginning to the end of the book. A compelling read.
Bold, intriguing, and psychologically compelling, "Penance" is a book that will stay with you always once you read it. Perfect for readers who enjoy true crime and unreliable narrators, "Penance" is a book that will leave you speechless.
Thank you NetGalley and Harper for an advanced copy on exchange for an honest review.
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
Wow, I didn’t expect these stories to emotionally wreck me, though I probably should have. Strout is wise and empathetic about hurt people making bad choices, and exceptionally good at making me feel things. The audiobook is excellent
@sbarolo@bookstodon#AmReading Strout's Anything is Possible. Like her other books, this one's everyday characters are anything but given her insights, great storytelling and very readable and explicit prose.