I love fiction. Favorite authors are Emily St. John Mandel, Kate Atkinson, Jennifer Egan, Colson Whitehead, Rosalie Knecht, and many I can't think of at the moment. I'm getting divorced from Goodreads; it will take some time to rid my life of one more billionaire.
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Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common.
Peter is …
Maine, 1789: When the Kennebec River freezes, entombing a man in the ice, Martha Ballard is summoned to examine the …
Maine, 1789: When the Kennebec River freezes, entombing a man in the ice, Martha Ballard …
Repetitive writing style made this a slog, despite the undeniably fascinating and historically accurate story of a Maine midwife in the late 1700s. Also, very rapey. It should come with a trigger warning. Just.Too. Much.
A singular new novel from Betty Trask Prize–winner Samantha Harvey, Orbital is an eloquent meditation on space and life on …
Maine, 1789: When the Kennebec River freezes, entombing a man in the ice, Martha Ballard is summoned to examine the …
As the child of a Hooters waitress and an ex-pro wrestler, Margo Millet's always known she'd have to make it …
Meh
Lilia Albert has been leaving people behind for her entire life. She spends her childhood …
Someone else wrote that her writing is like an art house movie, spare, elegant, elevating the mundane. That is part of the appeal for me. Lilia leaves Eli in Brooklyn just like she always leaves, without notice. She can't stay in one place because she doesn't know how; her childhood was spent endlessly travelling with her fugitive father. You find out why, you meet interesting people, you learn about dead languages and what it's like in Montreal in winter. Now I've read all her books and await the next which I think is due next year.
Lilia Albert has been leaving people behind for her entire life. She spends her childhood and adolescence traveling constantly and …
Lilia Albert has been leaving people behind for her entire life. She spends her childhood …
Someone else wrote that her writing is like an art house movie, spare, elegant, elevating the mundane. That is part of the appeal for me. Lilia leaves Eli in Brooklyn just like she always leaves, without notice. She can't stay in one place because she doesn't know how; her childhood was spent endlessly travelling with her fugitive father. You find out why, you meet interesting people, you learn about dead languages and what it's like in Montreal in winter. Now I've read all her books and await the next which I think is due next year.
The remarkable, little-known story of Belle da Costa Greene, J. P. Morgan's personal librarian--who became one of the most powerful …
