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A boy trying to escape a gruesome oedipedal prophecy, a simple man who can talk …
I'm reading the Dutch translation, and honestly it's almost just worth doing that for the translator's comments. Particularly in this footnote, the translator corrects Murakami in a not so subtile manner.
Short-listed for the Whitbread Award, this remarkable book defies categorisation. Under the Skin introduces Isserley, …
I love seeing Scotland through alien eyes. I didn't like that its description of its inhabitants as "vodsels" was also relatable. (Not a Scotland thing, more a me thing.)
Short-listed for the Whitbread Award, this remarkable book defies categorisation. Under the Skin introduces Isserley, …
Even if she could bring herself to start a conversation, the thought of how much work it would be to keep it going made her heart sink. He was obviously a typical male of the species; stupid, uncommunicative, yet with a rodent cunning for evasion. She would talk to him, and in return he would grunt, surrender one-word answers to her cleverest questions, lapse into silence at every opportunity. She would play her game, he would play his, on and on, perhaps for hours. Isserley realized, suddenly, that she just didn't have the energy to play anymore.
— Under the Skin by Michel Faber, David Mitchell (Page 208)
Tell me this isn't about dating apps.
Short-listed for the Whitbread Award, this remarkable book defies categorisation. Under the Skin introduces Isserley, a woman obsessed with picking …
A boy trying to escape a gruesome oedipedal prophecy, a simple man who can talk to cats, a mysterious librarian, …
What does it mean to be intelligent? Is it something unique to humans, or shared with other beings--beings of flesh, …
Eamon’s newfound happiness is shattered by the kind of murder that the government doesn’t want …
The first one was a pleasant surprise I found at Typewronger Books. I'm hoping they'll have this one in stock as well.
Established in 2025, the purpose of the new organization was simple: To advocate for the …
Less science fiction that I'm used to, more social and economic fiction. And pleasantly optimistic once you get through the carnage of the first half (read: keep going it will get better).
Toru, a quiet and preternaturally serious young college student in Tokyo, is devoted to Naoko, a beautiful and introspective young …
Dance Dance Dance (ダンス・ダンス・ダンス, Dansu Dansu Dansu) is the sixth novel by Japanese writer Haruki Murakami. First published in 1988, …
Two and a half millennia ago, the artifact appeared in a remote corner of space, beside a trillion-year-old dying sun …
From his cardboard box in the Tokyo subway, connected to the Internet, a clairvoyant cyberpunk mobilizes his friends to avert …
Errant Blood is a literary crime thriller by a startling new Scottish writer. Eamon Ansgar has fought in Afghanistan and …
