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 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: 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…