Tag: literary fiction

All’s Well

This is a very strange novel that does that dance between reality and fantasy

Whereabouts

I do recommend reading it, even if just to spend two hours with the way she constructs a sentence.

Open Water

Just give it a try–I’m begging you. You’ll be entrenched

Early Morning Riser

Give it a shot–it’s a delicate right, but it’s got a lot of heart, and it’s not too long!

White Ivy

White Ivy by Susie Wang was tentatively on my new release radar, but when I saw it was a BOTM pick, I picked it up a bit earlier than anticipated

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

After a long wait that was entirely my own fault, I finally read THE INVISIBLE LIFE OF ADDIE LARUE by VE Schwab and it blew me away.

2017 Reading by the Numbers

I’m always interested in looking at the breakdown of my reading, especially fiction versus nonfiction, male vs female authors, etc. Here is my 2017 reading broken down by the numbers. 

Young Jane Young

I love books that switch between POV, especially when it is done well, and Young Jane Young excels in that

Sisters

Sister is a strangely beautiful prose account of a woman obsessed with her husband’s first wife.

The Golden House

A man and his three sons move into The Gardens, and nothing is ever the same again. The Goldens pull their neighbors into their circle, full of intrigue and namelessness and the mysteries of their past that they cannot escape.  The story is moderated, and that really is the best way to describe it, by…

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