April 4, 2025
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April 1, 2025
City of Fiction by Yu Hua
Placed in a time when Chinese life was going through drastic changes this exotic and fascinating tale of personal struggle set against a backdrop of social and political upheaval is alternately inspiring and appalling. It is intensely interesting and holds the reader’s interest throughout.
March 25, 2025
Fifteen Wild Decembers by Karen Powell
An intimate and frank novelized version of the life and works of Emily Brontë with a wealth of material about her family and the society in which she lived. Excellent historical fiction.
February 28, 2025
No Less Strange or Wonderful by A. Kendra Greene
As varied and far-ranging as it is possible to be, this endlessly amusing and informative collection of bizarre stories and studies will keep the reader riveted to the page to the very end.
February 17, 2025
The Antidote by Karen Russell
Dust Bowl Nebraska, a prairie witch who stores unpleasant memories, a young girl struggling with growing up and finding love, a weary farmer with unlooked for luck and a community riven with fear and uncertainty come together to solve a grisly mystery.
February 5, 2025
The Café With No Name by Robert Seethaler
A sweet and sad story of human spirit triumphing over adversity told with love and a skill that draws the reader into the community of people struggling to recover after a great war. Courage, kindness and gentle humor mark this delightful novel.
January 31, 2025
The Thinking-About-Gladys Machine by Mario Levrero
Wildly creative and often daunting in its abstraction this work of demented genius will appeal to lovers of expressionist art and radical literature.
January 30, 2025
The Ghosts of Rome by Joseph O’Connor
A secret group aids escapees from the Nazis to exit Rome during the final days of the Second World War. Real-time narrative alternates with recorded and written accounts to provide compelling impetus to this finely written novel.
December 16, 2024