2023 Reading–October

Go, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck was recommended to me in preparation for my upcoming trip to Berlin. The novel, translated from German by…

2023 Reading–September

The Other Americans by Laila Lalami is a novel (and finalist for the 2019 National Book Award) about Nora, the daughter of Moroccan immigrants….

2023 Reading–August

Artemis by Andy Weir is a sci-fi novel that just didn’t work for me, possibly because the main character is obnoxious and snarky. Jasmine…

2023 Reading — July

I didn’t get a lot of reading done this month, but I have a good excuse: I was attending a concert almost every night…

2023 Reading–June

Concrete by Thomas Bernhard is a short novel I picked up in Vienna last year when I went into an English-language bookshop and asked…

2023 Reading–May

I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai is a novel about a podcaster who returns to the boarding school she attended to…

2023 Reading–April

The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson is a truly great book I should have read before now. Last year, my book club…

2023 Reading–March

The Neon Rain by James Lee Burke is the first in his series featuring Lt. Dave Robicheaux. When he is visiting a death-row inmate…

2023 Reading — February

Short month, short list of completed books: Dog on Fire by Terese Svoboda is a novel I reviewed for Southern Review of Books. (My…

2023 Reading — January

I only managed to finish three books this month, but they were long ones! Ghostwritten was David Mitchell’s first novel. The only other book…