Laura finished reading Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart
Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart
Born under different stars, Protestant Mungo and Catholic James live in the hyper-masculine and violently sectarian world of Glasgow's housing …
I like literary fiction and speculative fiction.
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Born under different stars, Protestant Mungo and Catholic James live in the hyper-masculine and violently sectarian world of Glasgow's housing …
I'm a big fan of Janelle Monae's Dirty Computer album and I love the idea of an anthology exploring more of that world. I wish I'd liked the stories more!
In The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer, singer-songwriter, actor, fashion icon, activist, and worldwide superstar Janelle Monáe …
Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous …
Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous …
A slow, eddying novel about living with change and forgetting the past. Not much happens, but i still found myself thinking a lot about this book and its quiet hopefulness.
**2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST
A haunting Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance, from the acclaimed author of …
**2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST
A haunting Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance, from the acclaimed author of …
I enjoyed this, even though I've been reading a lot of the same things that Winterson has so there wasn't much new to me here. Suspect I will come back to this from time to time, she has a way of writing about the history and present of technology that is both beautiful and informative
The Ark was built to save the lives of the many, but rapidly became a refuge for the elite, the …
The Ark was built to save the lives of the many, but rapidly became a refuge for the elite, the …
From the author of the classic A Little Life, a bold, brilliant novel spanning three centuries and three different versions …
This is a book, or maybe three books, about the same people, or maybe different people, living in the past, or the present, or the future. It's about relationships and secrets and care and love, and who we decide to become, to ourselves and to each other, and what we value and what we betray and the decisions that we make and the consequences they have.