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Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala
4.5
Sensuous and devastating .. the attention to minute physical detail in this is somehow just as / maybe even more ?? heartbreaking than the sheer knowledge of the horrific loss that drives this book’s story. A lesser author would focus only on the enormity of their pain … Deraniyagala makes it realer by showing us its tininess
How I Won a Nobel Prize by Julius Taranto
3.5
Many moments in this made me laugh out loud. Didn’t quite stick the landing i felt but plenty of fun nonetheless!
In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
5.0
This is still one of the best and most harrowing memoirs I've ever read
The Premonition by Banana Yoshimoto
Theres definitely interesting / aesthetically-enticing ways to write incest in fiction but this is not one of them
2.0
Devil House by John Darnielle
4.0
This was crazy (compliment). Love the switching POVs, a device which can be really hard to pull off but is done here so well. Love how you go into it thinking it’s going to be about horror/true crime and then it ends up being about California real estate and its discontents.
A Prayer for Travelers by Ruchika Tomar
3.0
The strength of this book is in its descriptive language: lots of perfect singular images that flashed directly into my mind’s eye from the page. Plot and characterization are a bit lacking. Could have been edited down maybe 25%.