Monday, May 30, 2022

Zoraida Córdova's THE INHERITANCE OF ORQUÍDEA DIVINA

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"What is it?" he asked. "And don't say nothing because you look like you've seen a ghost and we've seen too many ...
Sunday, May 29, 2022

Janelle Monae's THE MEMORY LIBRARIAN AND OTHER STORIES FROM DIRTY COMPUTER

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The summer of 2018 was a challenging one for me. Due to a medication I'd been put on for a chronic health condition, the slow growing ca...
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Tuesday, May 24, 2022

Emily St. John Mandel's SEA OF TRANQUILITY

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Ok, friends, I'm calling it: I'm officially over the Simulation Theory. It was interesting, even diverting, for a while, but now the...
Monday, May 16, 2022

Herve Le Tellier's THE ANOMALY (Tr. by Adriana Hunter, Narr. by Dominic Hoffman)

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A phrase that repeats often as Herve Le Tellier's  The Anomaly gets going is "Maybe this is happiness," usually describing so...
Wednesday, May 11, 2022

Olga Tokarczuk's THE BOOKS OF JACOB (Tr by Jennifer Croft)

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"Literature is a particular type of knowledge, it is --" he sought the right words, and suddenly a phrase came ready to his lips -...
Monday, May 9, 2022

Ada Palmer's PERHAPS THE STARS

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Blogger's note: This post concerns the fourth novel of a quartet so it might not make a lot of sense if you haven't read my posts on...
Friday, May 6, 2022

Indra Das' THE DEVOURERS (Narr by Shishur Kurup & Meera Simhan)

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After spending what felt like months entangled in some very long 18th-century styled doorstop fiction, it's pretty refreshing to return ...