Samantha Heather Mackey couldn’t be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England’s Warren University. A scholarship student who prefers the company of her…
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2023 in Book Reviews: Motherthing, Cleopatra and Frankenstein, The List & New Animal
Today’s book review roundup is an eclectic mix of love, grief, chaos and just downright disaster. It includes; Ainslie Hogarth’s Motherthing, Coco Mellors’ Cleopatra and Frankenstein, Yomi Adegoke’s The List…
Book Review: Rouge by Mona Awad
From the critically acclaimed author of Bunny comes a horror-tinted, gothic fairy tale about a lonely dress shop clerk whose mother’s unexpected death sends her down a treacherous path in…
2023 in Book Reviews: Project Hail Mary, The Silent Bride, Heartless & The Call
Today, I’m bringing you tales of space exploration, Wonderland and… marriage and murder? Not all in one book, obviously. Although, that does sound like it would either be a Booker-winning…
2023 in Book Reviews: The Housemaid & Before the Coffee Gets Cold Tales From the Cafe
Today’s review is a double – I’ll be reviewing Freida McFadden’s The Housemaid and Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s Before the Coffee Gets Cold: Tales from the Café, which were both super fun…
2023 in Book Reviews: Bliss Montage, Klara and the Sun & Prince Harry’s Spare
Quite the interesting combination in today’s book review post as I dive into my thoughts and feelings on Ling Ma’s short story collection Bliss Montage, Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the…
2023 in Book Reviews: Wilderness, The Family Game, If We Were Villains & The Villa
Long time no speak! 👋🏼 Life has been a whirlwind with a lot of work and travel. While I’ve not been as chronically online as previous years, you’ll be pleased…
Book Review: Before the Coffee Gets Cold
What would you change if you could go back in time? In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for…
Book Review: Careering by Daisy Buchanan
careering (verb) 1. working endlessly for a job you used to love and now resent entirely 2. knowing that a little of your soul is inextricably tied to the work…