Being Mortal ★★★★★

The Names ★★★★★

Wonderfully written. Although it's more about choices, the names Cora choses for each of the three parallel lives,

05 Sep

How Fiction Works ★★★☆☆

It was a little too academic for casual reading. Also, it focused on the works of classic literature most of

02 Sep

Effort-Driven Quality?

In my previous life, I was an architecture student. Well, actually, in the late nineties. Or, as the kids these

01 Sep

Hell of a Book ★★★★☆

Hell of a Book is doing at least two things at once, and it knows it. That's the

28 Aug

Six Days in Bombay ★★★☆☆

Meh! Six Days in Bombay had everything going for it on paper: late-1930s Bombay, a half-Indian half-English

18 Aug

The Book of Lost Hours ★★★★★

I'm a sucker for time travel, so this was always going to land well. But The Book of

06 Aug