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: 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…
Book Review: The Men by Sandra Newman
You wake up one day and the men in your life have disappeared. Your husband, your son, your father and your brother are nowhere to be found. Everything’s eerily quiet…
Book Review: Women and Other Monsters by Jess Zimmerman
When I am in between books, I like to read short stories. I used to find all of my short fiction on acclaimed mainstream magazines. You got three or four…
Book Review: Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
I first came across Irish writer Sally Rooney through her second novel Normal People. It was a big hit on all the Amazon book lists when it was first released…
Book Review: The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu
I just finished reading ‘The Three Body Problem’ by Chinese author Liu Cixin. It’s the first of a sci-fi trilogy set in China, spanning several decades. It begins in 1960s…