Book Review: Quarterlife by Satya Dyole Byock
I read Satya Doyle Byock’s Quarterlife in a dentist’s waiting room over the course of four appointments for a root canal. Having weathered my own quarter-life crisis when I pivoted…
Book Review: Acts of Desperation by Megan Nolan
When I first started reading Megan Nolan’s debut novel Acts of Desperation, it didn’t immediately draw me in. In fact, I ended up reading her second novel Ordinary Human Failings…
Book Review: Luster by Raven Leilani
I first heard about Luster by Raven Leilani when it made Obama’s list of favourite books for 2020. At the time, I was reading poetry by Ocean Vuong and had…
Book Review: All Fours by Miranda July
All Fours caught a bit of buzz in 2024 for its premise — a married woman upending her life on a quest for freedom and a sexual awakening. It was…
Book Review: Ordinary Human Failings by Megan Nolan
When a young girl dies while playing with other children in a London estate, suspicion is cast on a ten-year-old girl from a reclusive Irish family — the Greens. The…
Book Review: The Pisces by Melissa Broder
The Pisces by Melissa Broder is potentially the wildest book I have ever read. I don’t remember what first drew me to it, only that I read in 2023 as…
Book Review: The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow
Kentucky 1901: we meet January Scaller at seven years old tagging along on her guardian’s business trip. January’s guardian, a Mr. Locke, is a collector of artifacts and her father’s…
Book Review: Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
I found Piranesi by Susanna Clarke at a time when I was looking for something to transport me to an otherworldly place. My go-to reads are usually in the literary…