A haunting Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance, from the acclaimed author of The Housekeeper and the Professor. On an unnamed island off an unnamed coast, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, birds, roses—until things become much more serious. Most of the island's inhabitants are oblivious to these changes, while those few imbued… Continue reading The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa
Category: Contemporary fiction
The Stray Cats of Homs by Eva Nour
‘A cat has seven souls in Arabic. In English cats have nine lives. You probably have both nine lives and seven souls, because otherwise I don’t know how you’ve made it this far.' Sami’s childhood is much like any other - an innocent blend of family and school, of friends and relations and pets (including… Continue reading The Stray Cats of Homs by Eva Nour
Monthly Wrap Up: January 2020
As I love to do these days, I did a little poll over on my Twitter to see what post you guys wanted to see next from me and the most requested post was a January wrap up so here we are. I think I'll try my best to continue these posts throughout the year.… Continue reading Monthly Wrap Up: January 2020
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
Galaxy “Alex” Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale’s freshman class. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mom, Alex dropped out of school early and into a world of shady drug dealer boyfriends, dead-end jobs, and much, much worse. By age twenty, in fact, she is the sole survivor of a… Continue reading Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
The Binding by Bridget Collins
Imagine you could erase your grief.Imagine you could forget your pain.Imagine you could hide a secret.Forever. Emmett Farmer is working in the fields when a letter arrives summoning him to begin an apprenticeship. He will work for a Bookbinder, a vocation that arouses fear, superstition and prejudice – but one neither he nor his parents… Continue reading The Binding by Bridget Collins
Queen of Nothing by Holly Black
He will be the destruction of the crown and the ruination of the throne. Power is much easier to acquire than it is to hold onto. Jude learned this lesson when she released her control over the wicked king, Cardan, in exchange for immeasurable power. Now as the exiled mortal Queen of Faerie, Jude is… Continue reading Queen of Nothing by Holly Black
My Most Anticipated Books of 2020
I ran a little poll over on my Twitter recently about what post people wanted me to work on next and this post won by about 56%! There are a lot of great novels coming out this year and I'm honestly so excited to read them, but at the same time, I'm holding out because… Continue reading My Most Anticipated Books of 2020
