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Emily Johnson reviewed The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set off to write a book about writing, in the tradition of …
Everyone should read this
5 stars
Emily Johnson rated Our Wives Under the Sea: 5 stars
Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield
Leah is changed. Months earlier, she left for a routine expedition, only this time her submarine sank to the sea …
Emily Johnson rated All Fours: 4 stars
All Fours by Miranda July
The New York Times–bestselling author of The First Bad Man returns with an irreverently sexy, tender, hilarious, and surprising novel …
Emily Johnson rated Maeve Fly: 5 stars
Emily Johnson rated The Fury: 3 stars
Emily Johnson rated Darling: 3 stars
Emily Johnson rated Three Miles Past: 3 stars
Emily Johnson rated That Kind of Mother: 4 stars
That Kind of Mother by Rumaan Alam
"That Kind of Mother dives deep into big questions about parenthood, adoption, and race: Is mothering something learned, or that …
Emily Johnson rated Bury Your Gays: 5 stars
Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle
From Chuck Tingle, author of the USA Today bestselling Camp Damascus, comes a new heart-pounding story about what it takes …
Emily Johnson rated Cursed: 4 stars
Cursed by Christina Henry, Neil Gaiman, Karen Joy Fowler, and 2 others
Emily Johnson rated Encounter: 3 stars
Encounter by Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan (The Boy in the Iron Box, #6)
Dawn breaks, but the nightmare only intensifies in the shocking finale of The Boy in the Iron Box. In a …
Emily Johnson rated Falling Down: 3 stars
Falling Down by Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan (The Boy in the Iron Box, #1)
A group of mercenaries on an unsanctioned mission survives a plane crash in whiteout conditions in the Tian Shan mountains. …
Emily Johnson rated Siege: 4 stars
Siege by Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan (The Boy in the Iron Box, #5)
The mercenaries set an explosive scheme in motion to blow this bad dream to smithereens. But in chapter five of …
Emily Johnson rated Risen: 4 stars
Risen by Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan (The Boy in the Iron Box, #4)
What has been awakened is unbound. The Boy is getting his first taste of freedom. As their comrades fall, fear …