The Mare (the girl)

Having read Horse, by Geraldine Brooks, a few months back, when someone recommended the book The Mare, by Mary Gaitskill, I was primed to read it, especially because the teenage main character was named Velvet, immediately transporting me… Read More

Category: Coming of age, Literary Fiction, Socially engaged fictionTags: , ,

The long way

I just finished reading The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, by Becky Chambers, author of the Wayfarers and the Monk & Robot books. This one is the first of four in the Wayfarers series, but it’s… Read More

Category: Adventure, Science Fiction, space operaTags: , ,

A guilty secret

Sharon Bolton’s latest, The Pact, capitalizes on a theme we have seen before, in everything from I Know What You Did Last Summer, the teen thriller by Lois Duncan, to Donna Tartt’s The Secret History. That doesn’t make… Read More

Category: Psychological thriller, ThrillerTags: ,

Character

I haven’t made a post for a while now, for several reasons: I’m still finishing off Charlie Higson’s dystopian series for teens (I’m reading The End and hoping that all my many questions are answered); I started teaching… Read More

Category: Historical, LGBTQ, readers' advisory, Satire, Science Fiction, Socially engaged fictionTags: ,

One good turn

Can you be simultaneously enthralled with and utterly bewildered by the same book, the same author? If you read Kate Atkinson’s Jackson Brodie books, the answer is yes. I reviewed Case Histories, her first book starring Brodie, a… Read More

Category: MysteryTags: ,

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