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Out Stealing Horses

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After finishing The Baker’s Secret, I immediately picked up Out Stealing Horses without realizing it too was a World War II novel, though the war is used as a distant back drop rather than front and center as it was in The Baker’s Secret. For Trond ...

A Sudden Gust of Gravity

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A Sudden Gust of Gravity by Laurie Boris is an absorbing, satisfying book that takes a fresh look at relationships with original characters. Christina, the daughter of a magician, is a struggling waitress who dreams of following in her father’s ...

Child’s Play

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Child's Play is the 4th in a series of books by Darcia Helle. If you're new to the series, I think you can still enjoy the book without reading the others first because with each of her novels in this series, Helle has included enough background to ...

The Gargoyle Hunters

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The Gargoyle Hunters is a magnificently original debut novel from architectural aficionado and New York native John Freeman Gill. An unorthodox upbringing only seems odd to those on the outside: you don’t adapt to such an upbringing-you survive it; ...

The Girl from the Woods

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The Girl from the Woods by Chris Keane takes us into a world of supernatural occurrences, dreams foreshadowing reality, and sinister acts. At the heart of the novel, though, is nineteen-year-old Dante finding himself and becoming an adult. When the ...

Some Can Whistle

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When I stumbled across Buffalo Girls on my to-read shelf, Some Can Whistle was stocked beside it—though I have no idea its provenance. Nonetheless, reading McMurtry feels like putting on your most comfortable lounging gear, familiar and safe, so I ...

Seeing

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Terrible voting weather, remarked the presiding officer of polling station fourteen as he snapped shut his soaked umbrella and took off the raincoat that had proved of little use to him during the breathless forty-meter dash from the place where he ...

The Appointment

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Say you are a passenger on a bus you have ridden many times before. You are going to your appointment and it takes one hour and forty-five minutes to get there, but you give yourself an extra fifteen minutes, just in case. You cannot be late. At ten ...

Creature, a collection of short stories

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The mind—or body or self—is central to Amina Cain’s storytelling. This is the way it is with Creature, her collection of fourteen stories: elusive, introspective, intuitive. Stylistically, Cain absolves the beginning, middle, and end of linear ...

Loving Day

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“In the ghetto there is a mansion, and it is my father’s house.” As soon as I read this first sentence of Loving Day by Mat Johnson I sighed and thought, “Oh, good,” a book I’m going to love. I had just finished two other books, a memoir by an ...