Prose You Don't Have to Say You Love Me: A Memoir - Sherman Alexie (2017) A complicated book on a complicated subject. Many slight chapters made up of short essays, stories, and poems. This is a reflection on life with a complex woman and the … [Continue reading]
Books of June
This month in nonfiction: Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior - Catherine Johnson and Temple Grandin (2006) Ms. Grandin has a unique perspective on animal behavior that is informed by her own autism. … [Continue reading]
The Books of May
This month in prose: The Djinn Falls in Love and Other Stories - Mehvesh Murad & Jared Shurin(eds) (2017) A collection of new and traditional tales of the Djinn. Several of these are excellent. One is a commonly reprinted bit of Neil … [Continue reading]
The Books of April
Cutting for Stone - Abraham Verghese (2009) The book is very long. I started it in March and it took me most of April to finish it. The twins (Marion and Shiva Stone) at the center of Cutting for Stone come into the world in a messy and peculiar … [Continue reading]
Books of March
Fiction: The Bear and The Nightingale: A Novel - Katherine Arden (2017) Best fairy tale I've read in a long time. I was skeptical at first. But the heroine is more than a pretty face with an interesting fate. I can't be sure, as I am no expert, … [Continue reading]
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