Goodbye, July! My first full month of real summer in the Midwest. What I loved: fireflies, thunder and rain storms that last for hours. What is not so much: humidity that flattens me but makes ... Read More...
Broken Monsters
Lauren Beukes covered creepy in her debut The Shining Girls but it doesn't compare to just how mess-with-your-mind she gets in her latest, Broken Monsters. As if Detroit hasn't taken enough hits in ... Read More...
The Shining Girls
There was a lot of buzz at Book Expo America about Lauren Beukes’s new novel, The Shining Girls, and for good reason. The most often heard synopsis I heard was “Time Traveler’s Wife meets Silence ... Read More...