Haunted Places in a Haunted Country
The Reformatory. Tananarive Due. 2023. Some places are haunted, and I think on some level we all believe that. Americans did not invent the idea of »
We Forget Stories in Order to Live
The Buried Giant. Kazuo Ishiguro. 2015. This might be the saddest novel I’ve ever read, excluding of course the other novels by Kazuo Ishiguro. They’ »
Good Old Fashioned Science Fiction
Untouched by Human Hands. Robert Sheckley. 1954. I don’t usually care for this era of sci-fi, the one right before the new age that gave »
Late Middle Ages With a Devil
Mister B. Gone. Clive Barker. 2007. This is a fun little novella that I don’t have much to say about. It finally happened! I’ve »
It Takes a Village
The Fraud. Zadie Smith. 2023. I’ve come to terms with the fact that I really don’t usually like novels about writers. I can see »