Katabasis - R.F. Kuang (Harper Voyager, 2025) Alice Law is a focused, hard-working, and super intelligent student of Analytic Magic at Cambridge University. She has worked hard to reach her current position, working with advisor Jacob Grimes. Professor Grimes is brilliant, respected, and insanely difficult. Alice will do anything to please him, to make sure… Continue reading Book Review: Katabasis by R.F. Kuang
Read: Man or Mango? - Lucy Ellmann (Biblioasis, 2022) Seascraper - Benjamin Wood (Simon & Schuster Audio, 2025) Demon Copperhead - Barbara Kingsolver (Harper, 2022) Beautyland - Marie-Helene Bertino (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2024) I Hold a Wolf by the Ears - Laura van den Berg (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2020) The Man Born to… Continue reading What I Read – January 2026
Yellowface is a messy woman/disaster story in the best possible way. It's the sort of book that will have you inwardly yelling at the protagonist about her bad choices but you don't want to stop reading because you just have to find out how it all ends. June Hayward is an author of small success.… Continue reading Book Review: Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
Read: The Night Ship - Jess Kidd The Garden Party & Other Stories - Katherine Mansfield (Century Hutchinson, 1988) Let us be True - Erna Buffie (Coteau Books, 2015) The Sleeping Car Porter - Suzette Mayr (Coach House Books, 2022) She Who Became the Sun - Shelly Parker-Chan (MacMillan Audio, 2021) The Friend - Sigrid… Continue reading What I Read – June 2023
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