Newsflash: I’ll pretty much read anything that is tangentially related to Jane Austen. Unofficial sequels. Modern retellings. Historical fiction. Whatever. Some of it works. A lot of it doesn’t. But I’m usually game to give it a go. I really enjoyed the books that were part of The Austen Project a few years ago. There was Emma, driving around her little town in a Mini Cooper. Cat and Henry, with lots of references to Twilight. Liz and Darcyand a dating reality show in Cincinatti. And […]
Just REALLY well-written thrillers, guys
If you like crime novels — I’m thinking Jeffrey Deaver, Preston/Child, Tami Hoag, all the ones I loved growing up — you should try this series out. Meg Gardiner has written two novels (so far) about Caitlin Hendrix, with a third and a procedural for CBS in the works. UNSUB “But fate was a myth constructed by fools—people who gamble or follow horoscopes, who believe the stars rule their lives.” The first novel, Unsub, introduces us to Caitlin as a narcotics detective in the Bay area. She’s […]
Are you Extraordinary?
I loved this book, I couldn’t put it down once I started reading it. Schwab is a great author (wrote the Shades of Magic series set in multiple parallel Londons). I believe this is one of her older books which recently was republished in the US. The idea is that some people are EOs – extraordinary – have a “superpower” that resulted from a near-death experience. The powers are varied – healing, controlling people, raising the dead, etc. College roommates Victor and Eli set out […]
Happiness? that entails comfort, organization, a constructed stability altogether foreign to me.
I learned about this novel from two different sources: one, it won a big French literary prize–the Prix Goncourt–which helped me to generate a list of 20th century French writing I might want to check out, and two, another novel by Tournier was placed on Le Monde’s top 100 books of all time, which is not limited to French writing and contains some really interesting choices. This novel is a series of different voices, documents, and narratives that tell of “The Ogre,” Abel Tiffauges, who […]