Author: Carys Davies Type: Fiction, novel Published: 2018 I read it: May 2018 I’ll be vacationing in Nashville soon and was curious about reading material connected to some part of Tennessee. I found the Cormac McCarthy’s novel Suttree, and got about 30 pages in before I realized I didn’t have it in me to finish…
Author: Philip Pullman Type: Fiction, novel Part of series: His Dark Materials (#2) Published: 1997 I read it: April 2018 (re-read) If The Golden Compass focuses strictly on Lyra, even while cramming in plenty of other characters, The Subtle Knife slices up the primary narrative to cover several angles that inform the story at large. This…
Author: Samanta Schweblin Translator: Megan McDowell Type: Fiction, novel Published: 2017 (English) I read it: May 2018 I read four titles from the 2018 Tournament of Books, the most I’ve gotten around to from any one year of the competition. I didn’t even know Dear Cyborgs was in the running, and I was lukewarm on…
Author: Ned Vizzini Type: Fiction, novel Published: 2006 I read it: April 2018 I didn’t know a thing about this book or the author, so I caught up quickly with Rachel Cohn’s foreword. Turns out, Ned Vizzini spent five days at an adult psychiatric hospital, wrote this book immediately afterward (all of it within a…
Author: Paulette Jiles Type: Fiction, novel Published: 2016 I read it: April 2018 In the years after the Civil War, the state of Texas was still defining itself, split as it was amongst settled towns, outlaw stretches of road, contentious local politics, and a good chunk of open country that made up the wild west.…
Author: Mohsin Hamid Type: Fiction, novel Published: 2017 I read it: April 2018 Exit West, a novel by an author new to me, and one garnering great praise, the book, that is, not the author, although he too, I would assume, has also gathered praise independent of this publication, is the story of two young…
Author: George Saunders Type: Fiction, novel Published: 2017 I read it: April 2018 When I knew that a new Saunders story was coming, I should have known what was coming. I should have known that he would pierce to the center of pain with the self-assigned task to crawl back up from it to grasp…
