Pseudonymous writer/reader who loves both maximalist novels and flash fiction. I also love to read about Buddhism; mindfulness; science (particularly astrophysics and human perception); Black history, literature and criticism; science fiction, fantasy; poetry; and psychology. I love to read newspapers, front to back, although it's a luxury these days. (I also love Harper's, but just for the cryptic crossword at the back!)
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The Accidental is the dizzyingly entertaining, wickedly humorous story of a mysterious stranger whose sudden …
… and this is the other English countryside novel. Delightful so far. Told in first- and third-person perspectives of the various very well defined characters
I read so many books at the same time… this one is a nice counterpart to the other English countryside novel I’m reading
Montserrat has always been overlooked. She’s a talented sound editor, but she’s left out of …
Great October read. Combination occult horror/romance/film buff novel set in Mexico City in the 1990s. Two long-time friends on the verge of a romantic relationship unknowingly risk reviving a Nazi hierophant with a growing cult following who are developing violent magic powers
I have a bias against books I think are written to be movies, and I think a few of the action scenes turned me off personally, but the relationship between the two characters is handled deftly and the main occult-based plot is built well. The magic is well contained -- not too much hand wavy stuff,
Montserrat has always been overlooked. She’s a talented sound editor, but she’s left out of …
Excited to read this author
A small-time criminal. A has-been rock star. A shadowy government agency. And a severed hand …
This book pissed me off, because it’s not a standalone novel but the first book of a series and I didn’t pick that up before I started reading it.
It’s a fun set up — a severed hand (of a demon or devil?) causes people to go violently bonkers and/or kill themselves to show allegiance, but if someone dies near the hand they become something like a zombie
It has a fun gangster/noir vibe, but really you’re kinda waiting to see how the author is going to pull it all together … and then he doesn’t, because the story continues in a future book :(
The Candy House opens with the staggeringly brilliant Bix Bouton, whose company, Mandala, is so …
I wouldn’t recommend this one unless you read Goon Squad (which I haven’t…). It’s well written, but I think you need the background of the first book to understand the characters
Wonderful group of connected stories about living in the modern Internet age
@beladozer Isn't that the way too many times? Some call it the "Suck Fairy," i.e. someone came along and ruined that book you used to love! Part of it (for me) is that nothing is as good as the first time.
It is honestly why I rarely read books twice. The ones I love and cherish could get seriously tarnished. I tried to read The Phoenix and the Carpet and the Narnia books with my kids -- they did NOT stand up! ;)
This book is really interesting to me because it's billed as a group of "short stories," (the first topping out at ~100 pages), yet the characters repeat -- all the stories are in the same universe.
It's very hypermodern -- set in London and its suburbs, but it could apply to any city anywhere. Very much in the present -- likes, replies, favorites and all.
The Candy House opens with the staggeringly brilliant Bix Bouton, whose company, Mandala, is so successful that he is “one …
Martian Time-Slip is a 1964 science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick. The novel uses the common science …
Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb is a 1965 science fiction novel by American writer Philip …
Galactic Pot-Healer is a science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick, first published in 1969. The novel deals …
