Nothing like waiting until the last week of the year to put out best-of lists. Today I want to share five gems that I adored that didn’t get as much love and attention as they deserve. Hopefully, you got gift cards and pick up at least one of these remarkable novels. Title links go to my full review This debut novel from a Native American author ... Read More...
Indian Horse: A Novel
I love discovering new writers, the voices of people with stories I’ve never imagined. In the past two years I’ve been fortunate to read more from Native American authors like Tommy Orange and Oscar Hokeah, with their singular style. I can now add Richard Wagamese to this list. A Canadian writer and member of the Ojibway tribe, his novel, Indian Horse is a stunning portrayal of ... Read More...
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
Gaming has never been my thing, aside from a brief flirtation with Centipede when I was working alone as a bartender and could play for free during the slow hours. For this reason, I had no interest in reading, Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin, a novel about two gamers. The premise of nerdy guy meets nerdy girl and they create video games left me cold. Yes, ... Read More...
All the Broken Places
What better way to start the last month of 2022 then with a 5 ⭐️ book. It’s John Boyne’s mesmerizing novel, All the Broken Places. Where some novels entertain by skating along the surface, this book plumbs the deepest depths of the human psyche, hunting the meaning of complicity during one of history’s darkest chapters. Gretel is a widow in her 90s living in a ... Read More...
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver is back with Demon Copperhead, a serpentine tour-de-force set in the southern Appalachian Mountains. A modern-day David Copperfield, the novel follows Damon Fields from his ignominious birth in a trailer to a single, teenage mother doped out of her mind, all the way through his teens. It’s not a journey for the faint of heart, but the world Kingsolver builds ... Read More...
Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta
Carlotta has had a time of it. She was sent to prison for 23 years because she was holding a gun nearby when someone was murdered. Worse, when she got there, she was a young man who knew he was meant to be a woman. Something the state had no interest in hearing and something that brought her a world of misery because they would not transfer her to a women’s prison. Now, she’s ... Read More...
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