Category: Reading Journal

Simple Passion by Annie Ernaux (translated from French by Tanya Leslie) is a short book that takes a deep dive into the impact passion…

Horse by Geraldine Brooks was my book club selection for October, and I found it interesting because of the book I just finished writing,…

Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro is my book club’s selection for August. I didn’t love it, I have to admit. The novel…

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir is a science fiction thriller about an energy-eating bacterial threat to life on Earth. A man awakens from…

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig is overly sentimental. Spoiler alert—if you might want to read this book, stop reading this review now. It…

Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu is . . . clever. The book is a faux screenplay that illustrates the invisibility of Asians in America,…

Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis is a history book (and Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History in 2001) that…

If you follow this blog, you may know that every month I make a few comments about the books I read that month. You…

I spent the first three weeks of December at a residency, diligently working on my novel, so I didn’t get a whole lot of…

My Monticello by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson is a collection of several stories and a novella. The opening story, “Control Nego,” is dynamite and is…