Tag: murder
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Strega by Johanna Lykke Holm
I forgot to post about this one! I finished Strega in early April after a trip to my favorite local bookstore. I love this translator’s work (took the opportunity to order her newest, The Devil’s Grip, as well…). This book is eerie, cold, a little bit magical, but somehow soooo nourishing. It’s easy to fall…
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Loneliness good and bad
I haven’t been reading the most recently, but I feel like I’m on familiar ground: literary fiction, international fiction, and wild magic. The Driver’s Seat by Muriel Spark This was a very strange start to Muriel Spark. I’m not sure why I did it—except that it was her only book available on Libby. A short,…
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The Love of Singular Men by Victor Heringer
I was blown away by Victor Heringer’s The Love of Singular Men, a hypnotizing story about a young boy and his teen love — a relationship cut short — and that same boy, now an aging man, as he returns to his childhood suburb of Quiem. [Spoiler]: The story moves easily between the landscape and…
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Holiday week reads
A little gay necromancy, a little crying over ancient epics. Gideon the Ninth by Tasmyn Muir: Talked about this in my last post. I thought it was ok, and I quite liked the characters. This book was a lot spookier than I had imagined it’d be! It’s a bit of a closed-house murder mystery vibe,…
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American War by Omar El Akkad
I used to see the hardcover of this book on our New Releases table at the bookstore, and loved the cover. I was drawn in by the idea of an Arab-American take on American dystopia. I was obsessed with science fiction at the time, so this book has stayed in the back of my mind…