Those Beyond the Wall by Micaiah Johnson (2024) READ: 21 April 2024 RATING: I could not remember as much of the previous book as I’d thought I had, but that was fine. This is a �...
The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles by Malka Older (2024) READ: 15 April 2024 RATING: This is the second in a series. Two woman, a detective and a scholar, wind up solving myster...
Danger and Other Unknown Risks by Ryan North (2023) READ: 14 April 2024 RATING: This is illustrated by Erica Henderson who did a terrific job with it and helped make it delightful. ...
The Crossing Places by Elly Griffiths (2010) READ: 12 April 2024 RATING: I heard people discussing this author when I was working at the library and took this book home on the stren...
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley (2015) READ: 9 April 2024 RATING: A great story about the quest for a bombmaker in 1880’s London, one who may have been a fancy ...
A Crack in the Wall by Claudia Pinero (2013) READ: 5 April 2024 RATING: An Argentine crime novel about a frustrated architect who is working in a dead end job with a few other co-wo...
Dirt by William Bryant Logan (1995) READ: 2 April 2024 RATING: When Logan subtitles this book “the ecstatic skin of the earth” he means it in more of a reverential way. He’s a...
The Hunter by Tana French (2024) READ: 1 April 2024 RATING: This is good like I thought it would be, the second in the Cal Hooper series about a retired American cop who moves to a ...
Roaming by Mariko Tamaki (2023) READ: 31 March 2024 RATING: This is a graphic novel about three young women from Canada who visit New York City. They are all sort of friends in dif...
Big Time by Ben Winters (2024) READ: 27 March 2024 RATING: I’ve liked Winters' other books but this one (where all the narrative characters are female or non-binary) just fell fl...
The Last Taxi Ride by A.X. Ahmad (2014) READ: 21 March 2024 RATING: Ranjit Singh is a taxi driver, a Sikh former Indian Army captain now working in New York City. He hopes to have hi...
Freshman Year by Sarah Mai (2024) READ: 20 March 2024 RATING: I grabbed this despite knowing I do not really enjoy the memoirs of awkward young women. This was on me. This is a wel...
The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown (2024) READ: 17 March 2024 RATING: . What if any door were every door? A compelling story about a world mostly like ours except there is a set of ma...
The Third Person by Emma Grove (2022) READ: 12 March 2024 RATING: This is a HUGE (900+ page) graphic novel about the author’s experience getting therapy in anticipation of gender a...
Exit Black by Joe Pitkin (2024) READ: 12 March 2024 RATING: A “back on my bullshit” kind of book, a space thriller about a luxury hotel on a space station and things that go ter...