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The Names ★★★★★
Wonderfully written. Although it's more about choices, the names Cora choses for each of the three parallel lives,
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How Fiction Works ★★★☆☆
It was a little too academic for casual reading. Also, it focused on the works of classic literature most of
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Hell of a Book ★★★★☆
Hell of a Book is doing at least two things at once, and it knows it. That's the
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Six Days in Bombay ★★★☆☆
Meh! Six Days in Bombay had everything going for it on paper: late-1930s Bombay, a half-Indian half-English
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The Book of Lost Hours ★★★★★
I'm a sucker for time travel, so this was always going to land well. But The Book of
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Not Quite Dead Yet ★★★☆☆
Three stars feels right for this one: a solid premise that runs longer than it needed to.
Jet gets attacked
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The Correspondent ★★★★★
Written entirely through a series of letters with a late-seventies woman as the central protagonist. Much like myself, she
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The Phoenix Crown ★★☆☆☆
Disappointing from one of my favorite authors.
The Phoenix Crown promised much: Kate Quinn, San Francisco, 1906, four women, an
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People Like Us ★★★★★
Jason Mott can write. Reading this book is an experience.
People Like Us is set between a Minnesota college campus
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The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt ★★★★☆
Three thousand years of history in one book is a tall order. Wilkinson mostly delivers.
I listened to the audiobook
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A Deadly Episode ★★★★☆
Four stars. Six books in, and Horowitz still knows how to keep this series moving.
This entry leans more meta
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These Summer Storms ★★☆☆☆
Three stars, and mostly because I went in with the wrong expectations.
I picked this up for the Succession-adjacent
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Last One Out ★★★★☆
Nothing ever happens in a Jane Harper book, at least in the present, but she has an uncanny ability to
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The High Mountains of Portugal ★★★★☆
Four stars, and mostly because chapters two and three earned it after chapter one made me wonder if I'
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The Art of Spending Money: Simple Choices for a Richer Life ★★★☆☆
I came into this as a big fan of The Psychology of Money, which actually changed how I think about
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Orbital ★★★★☆
This is prose doing the work plot usually does, and it mostly earns it.
There's no real plot
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Razorblade Tears ★★★☆☆
Disappointing compared to All the Sinners Bleed. Although the premise held much promise and the characters dropped a lot of
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Wild Dark Shore ★★★★★
Haunting, sad, and full of yearning. We live in a world that's beset with woes of climate change