“Woman, Eating” follows a 23-year-old vampire starting her art internship and living independently from her mother for the first time.
Book Review: Mary and the Birth of Frankenstein by Anne Eekhout
“Mary and the Birth of Frankenstein” is a dual-timeline reimagining of Mary Shelley’s life. In the first timeline, we follow Mary and her friends (including the notorious Lord Byon) at Lake Geneva in 1816, during the “year without summer.” In the second timeline, we follow a younger Mary, aged fourteen in 1812, during her visit to the Baxter family in Dundee, Scotland.
Book Review: The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enríquez
“The Dangers of Smoking in Bed” is a collection of dark, unsettling, and, at times, grotesquely graphic stories set at the heart of Buenos Aires. Ghosts, superstitions, disappearing children, troubled teenagers, and more!
Book Review: The Winter Vault by Anne Michaels
“The Winter Vault” is an expansive book of love, displacement, and grief, written in Anne Michaels’s distinctive poetic style. It is a dual-timeline historical novel, following a young grieving couple and their time spent in Canada (during the construction of the St. Lawrence Seaway) and Egypt (during the building of the Aswam dam.)
Book Review: Tell Me Lies by Carola Lovering
“Tell Me Lies” follows Lucy Albright’s journey as a student at a small Californian college, miles away from her mother and her preppy life in Long Island. Amidst new friends and college parties, Lucy meets the enigmatic Stephen DeMarco. From there, her life dips into troubling territory.
Book Review: Stoner by John Williams
“Stoner” is a literary fiction novel, set at the end of the 19th century, that follows William Stoner’s life, a poor son of a Missouri farmer turned university scholar.
Book Review: Iron Flame (The Empyrean #2) by Rebecca Yarros
“Iron Flame” is the second romance fantasy book in The Empyrean series. The story follows Violet Sorrengail’s education as a dragon rider during her second year at the Basgiath War College.
Book Review: My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
Set at the backdrop of the turn of the century, “My Year of Rest and Relaxation” follows a privileged narrator (thin, pretty, white, rich, you get the gist) who hibernates in a drug-induced state for a year in her paid-for Upper East Side apartment. On the surface, she has everything any girl wants. But through the cracks, we meet a character who’s deeply flawed and terribly, terribly alone.
Book Review: A Slip under the Microscope by H. G. Wells
“A Slip under the Microscope” is Book 77 of the Penguin Little Black Classics. (You can buy the collection here.) This collection features two short stories (The Door in the Wall and A Slip under the Microscope) by the renowned science fiction author H. G. Wells.
Book Review: Dune (Dune #1) by Frank Herbert
“Dune” follows the story of Paul Atreides, who is the heir to a noble family and sent to rule Arrakis, a barren sand planet that has a special spice called “melange.” But the house of Atreides is not the only faction that has their stakes to this melange.
Book Review: Coraline by Neil Gaiman
“Coraline” by Neil Gaiman is a terrifying Children’s book but a classic amazing for kids and adults alike!
Book Review: How Should a Person Be? by Sheila Heiti
“How Should a Person Be?” by Sheila Heiti is an amazing book depicting the hardships of both being a human and being an artist. I highly recommend this book for creatives and non-creatives alike.
