Gideon Defoe’s breezy book, An Atlas of Extinct Countries, is the kind of nonfiction I delight in. Defoe recounts the…
Tastes like War, by Grace M. Cho
Trigger warning for disordered eating and brief domestic violence. When we think of war literature, we generally think of stories—either…
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Looks like I’m not the only one who wants to bring back the Federal Writers Project. Dorothy Pineda reports. (Los…
The Hidden Palace, by Helene Wecker
The Hidden Palace, by Helene Wecker, is not the book I was expecting. I think it might not be the…
The First Day of Spring, by Nancy Tucker
Trigger warnings for child neglect. I’ve always thought one of the biggest questions our species has had to wrestle with…
Honeycomb, by Joanne M. Harris
Once upon a time—or as the story begins here, Long ago and far away—there were the Silken Folk. Normal humans…
Within Without, by Jeff Noon
John Nyquist returns for a fourth outing in Jeff Noon’s surreal, layered novel, Within Without. These mysteries are not for…
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Abbot Kahler tells the story of what happened to Sara Gruen, a story strange enough to be fiction. (Vulture) Have…
A Master of Djinn, by P. Djèlí Clark
A Master of Djinn, by P. Djèlí Clark, was a completely enchanting novel. I was instantly hooked on this adventurous…
I Bought a Book That Was Canceled
I’m sure that I’ve mentioned that one of my duties as a librarian at a university is buying and weeding…
