Horror Should Be Scary
The Creeper. A.M. Shine. 2022. My most snobbish belief, apparently, is that horror should be scary. I think I’ve talked about that here before, »
Bride Madness
In a Dark, Dark Wood. Ruth Ware. 2015. I don’t have, and have never really had, the bridal gene. I never dreamed about weddings as »
Love in a Time of Brutality
The Age of Innocence. Edith Wharton. 1920. It’s difficult to write about a book that’s probably rated exactly where it ought to be. So »
Reading That Garbage
Salvage: Readings From the Wreck. Dionne Brand. 2024. One way I think we all went crazy in the last decade or so (there are so many »
Trust No Englishman
An Instance of the Fingerpost. Iain Pears. 1997. I’ve read quite a few novels this year with unreliable narrators, some of which I’ve loved »