Queer, friendly, wordy, neurodivergent. Vacillatingly voracious reader. General rule of avoiding books that are written by/for/about cishet white men, especially Americans.
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"The secret is, vampires are real and I am one. The secret is, I'm stealing from you what is most …
"The secret is, vampires are real and I am one. The secret is, I'm stealing from you what is most …
Whales begin sinking ships. Toxic, eyeless crabs poison Long Island's water supply. The North Sea shelf collapses, killing thousands in …
"The secret is, vampires are real and I am one. The secret is, I'm stealing from you what is most …
"Exciting new fiction from James McBride, the first since his National Book Award-winning novel The Good Lord Bird. The stories …
"Exciting new fiction from James McBride, the first since his National Book Award-winning novel The Good Lord Bird. The stories …
Reread after "H is for Hawk" discussed the author. Charming, sometimes funny, thoughtful, and full of pathos.
Reread after "H is for Hawk" discussed the author. Charming, sometimes funny, thoughtful, and full of pathos.
A spellbinding ghost story, a complex and intriguing historical mystery, and a poignant romance with an enexpected twist.An upper-class woman …
His extraordinary debut, Those Across the River, was hailed as “genre-bending Southern horror” (California Literary …
I've enjoyed both of the other books I've read by this author, but left this one sitting quite a while. I wasn't sure I'd dig it, what with the clearly heavy religious themes. The first page or two was quite Bible-like, and I struggled a bit, but I was soon immersed in the story and raced through. Like his other books, quite graphic and at times pretty unsettling, with deft writing, flawed and compelling characters, and touches of black humor. The religious aspect, while of course Catholic in name (it's Black Plague era France, after all) is treated with a lens that sort of blurs together the sardonic and the creepily supernatural, which was fine by me. There's some queer content (His books typically have a straight protagonist, usually male, but women and queer people exist and are fully realized characters). A good read.
I've enjoyed both of the other books I've read by this author, but left this one sitting quite a while. I wasn't sure I'd dig it, what with the clearly heavy religious themes. The first page or two was quite Bible-like, and I struggled a bit, but I was soon immersed in the story and raced through. Like his other books, quite graphic and at times pretty unsettling, with deft writing, flawed and compelling characters, and touches of black humor. The religious aspect, while of course Catholic in name (it's Black Plague era France, after all) is treated with a lens that sort of blurs together the sardonic and the creepily supernatural, which was fine by me. There's some queer content (His books typically have a straight protagonist, usually male, but women and queer people exist and are fully realized characters). A good read.
His extraordinary debut, Those Across the River, was hailed as “genre-bending Southern horror” (California Literary Review), “graceful [and] horrific” (Patricia …
His extraordinary debut, Those Across the River, was hailed as “genre-bending Southern horror” (California Literary Review), “graceful [and] horrific” (Patricia …
