Progress report:
Books read:
341
Books to go:
58
Latest from the Blog
‘Fever’ a Layered Gothic Novel
The growing closeness between Soraya and Mrs. Hattingh seems at first harmless, though this wouldn’t be a very good gothic novel if it stayed that way.
‘Before I Forget’ A Pleasantly Gentle Story of Forgetting
Before I Forget is a sweet, swift read that focuses on the emotions surrounding memory and self, though it shies away from some of the gnarlier aspects of end-of-life caregiving.
‘Captain’s Dinner’ Focuses on Legal Drama, Not Cannibalism
There’s a delicacy in writing about history. For one thing, having the benefit of knowing the end of a series of events from the beginning makes it easy for us to criticize the actions of those who lived it. It can be tricky, too, to not overlay the norms and expectations of today to those…
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