The Power by Naomi Alderman
It’s not too surprising that there is a flood of fiction hitting the market these days about women and their responses to generations of systemic subjugation and abuse. Maybe it’s time for a new...
View ArticleMrs. by Caitlin Macy
I’m not ashamed to admit that one of my go-to genres is Wealthy People Behaving Badly. There is just something about reading (or watching) people with stupid amounts of money acting foolish and,...
View ArticleCirce: A Novel by Madeline Miller
No matter what else you might think about them, no one knows how to do drama like the gods and goddesses of Greek mythology. And no one knows how to translate this drama for the modern mind like...
View ArticleSummer Fun Non-Fiction: Mini-Reviews
As you well know I’m not a big non-fiction reader, but between friends’ recommendations and my library’s awesome Peak Picks program (brand new releases available without a hold list), I came across...
View ArticleIn the House in the Dark of the Woods
Halloween may be over but the advancing winter weather still makes a perfect backdrop for creepy reading. Last week I wrote about Killing Commendatore, a Japanese novel that was oddly unsettling, but...
View ArticleThe Pale King by David Foster Wallace
I didn’t finish The Pale King. I tried. I really tried, but it is like a 400-level college English class—for majors only. And it’s almost 600 pages. The fact that it’s ostensibly about the IRS...
View ArticleA Door in the Earth
Parveen is like most young women her age—graduating college, but not sure what she wants to do with her degree in medical anthropology. Until she reads a memoir, written by a man who goes to...
View ArticleNecessary People: A Novel
It always seems as if being the friend of a really wealthy person would be fun—going expensive places, but never having to pay, exotic vacations, great gifts. But it never plays out that way in...
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