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…
Book Review: The Other Valley by Scott Alexander Howard
Sometime last year while scouring booklists online for new reads, I came across The Other Valley by Scott Alexander Howard. It’s a coming-of-age story about a sixteen-year-old girl named Odile…
Book Review: The Court Dancer by Shin Kyung-sook
$11.99 on Kindle The Court Dancer is a historical fiction novel set in 1890s Korea under the Joseon Dynasty. As the title suggests, it follows the life of an orphaned…
Book Review: A Concise Chinese English Dictionary for Lovers by Xiaolu Guo
I always find myself gravitating towards books written by women of color, particularly Asian women. They have no qualms about writing things plainly. When they talk about poverty, they lay…