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The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Recommended for: dreamers, poets and those in love with magic and words Read December 2011 ★★★★ Sometimes I want chocolate. And sometimes I want the chocolate experience. I’m as guilty as the next...
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Daughter of Smoke & Bone by Laini Taylor or a delightful surprise
Recommended for: fans of Night Circus, fantasy romantics, people who want a good fantasy Read from December 15, 2011 to January 13, 2012 ★★★★ A very long time ago, a good friend and I sat down for an...
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Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer
September 2014 Recommended for fans of jeanette winterson, environmental exploration, the New Weird ★ ★ ★ ★ 1/2 “The effect of this cannot be understood without being there. The beauty of...
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Authority by Jeff Vandermeer. Or, lack thereof.
September 2014 Recommended for fans of metaphors, slow-moving puzzles ★ ★ ★ ★ If Annihilation reminded me of Jeanette Winterson’s writing, then Authority reminded me of Kafka, but not the...
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Acceptance by Jeff Vandermeer. Or, at least Ambivalence.
November 2014 Recommended for fans of sci-fi, hallucinogenic fiction ★ ★ ★ ★ Once again, Vandermeer astonishes me with evocative, symbolic language: “The fifth morning I rose from the grass...
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Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
Recommended for: fans of the Night Circus, Bradbury fans, creepy nostalgia Read from September 01 to 02, 2012 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The Ray Bradbury I remember reading decades ago was not this poetic....
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In the Woods by Tana French
Recommended for: anyone who likes mysteries, psychological analysis, lovely word-smithing Read from November 08 to 09, 2012 ★ ★ ★ ★ I started this series out of chronological order, which only...
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The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There
Read August 2014 Recommended for fans of Valente, purplish prose, shadows ★ ★ ★ ★ 1/2 Once you’ve been to a world filled with magic, what happens next? September first visited Fairyland...
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Heaven’s Prisoners by James Lee Burke.
Recommended for: fans of literary mystery and a tolerance for violence Read on May 27, 2013, read count: twice ★ ★ ★ ★ When Burke writes, I see dead people. And sand sharks, and listing...
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Black Cherry Blues by James Lee Burke. Or, blues worth singing.
Recommended for: fans of deeply flawed detectives and southern noir Read on August 2013 ★ ★ ★ ★ 1/2 Sometimes I wonder if you can really like the Robicheaux series. It isn’t easy witnessing a...
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Boy’s Life by Robert R. McCammon.
World Fantasy Award 1992 Recommended for: hmm. For the right mood. ★ ★ ★ ★ Think Something Wicked This Way Comes without a focused antagonistic plot line. Think Alice Hoffman. Think of...
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Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Finished April 2015 Recommended for fans of the apocalypse, celebrity-gazing ★ ★ ★ ★ 1/2 “One of the great scientific questions of Galileo’s time was whether the Milky Way was made up of...
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The Serpent by Claire North. Or, A good game
Read December 2015 Recommended for fans of politics, Venice ★ ★ ★ ★ “She looks at her husband’s back, the empty glasses at his side, the coins on the table, and realises that there is anger...
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The Master by Claire North
Read December 2015 Recommended for fans of global games ★ ★ ★ ★ The third in North’s triptych of novellas about The Gamehouse. You keep using that word. The Garden of Earthly Delights by...
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Senlin Ascends by Josiah Bancroft. But slowly. Oh-so-slowly.
Read April 2017 Recommended for fans of The Orphan’s Tales ★ ★ 1/2 This was one of the most lovely books I almost didn’t finish. To certain library books I must ask certain questions: are they...
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