jamiedarlin's reviews
551 reviews

Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss

4.0

How Long 'til Black Future Month? by N.K. Jemisin

4.0

Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyemi

4.0

The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart

4.0

Sheets by Brenna Thummler

4.0

The Poison Squad: One Chemist's Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century by Deborah Blum

5.0

The Golden Tresses of the Dead by Alan Bradley

4.0

The Houseguest: And Other Stories by Amparo Dávila

4.0

Calypso by David Sedaris

4.0

The essays in Calypso are a perfect mixture of honest self-assessment and humorous reflections about what it means to be a human being with a finite human existence. I laughed and cried in equal parts as I read and didn't find one 'stinker' in the whole bunch.

I was particular fond of the essay duo about the limpoma—not a soul in the world besides David Sedaris could have provided such entertainment.

Letter from Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King, Jr.

5.0