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Category: Book Reviews

January 18, 2021January 14, 2021 Noah Hernandez Book Reviews

The Reader’s Paradise: Review of The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

Morgenstern’s work is a novel for the book lovers and the story fanatics. It is the reader’s paradise, filled with reading nooks, secret libraries, mysterious books, and attractive storytellers.

January 11, 2021January 10, 2021 Noah Hernandez Book Reviews

Through Twists and Timelines: Review of The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

Stuart Turton’s debut novel, The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, is a book filled with surprises.

November 23, 2020November 22, 2020 Mallen Clifton Book Reviews, Magazine

Stars and Starts: Review of Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers

The book spins a vibrating tension between silken, lyrical imagery, and anxiety-inducing plot.

November 20, 2020November 19, 2020 Sukhmony Brar Book Reviews

“He is Sawdust in the Wind”: Review of The Lumberjack’s Dove by GennaRose Nethercott

The Lumberjack’s story is attractive because it offers readers some folkloric mysticism in the time of quarantine.

November 16, 2020November 16, 2020 Regina Lim Book Reviews

Learning to Love Yourself: Review of Someone Who Will Love You In All Your Damaged Glory by Raphael Bob-Waksberg

These stories provide incisive and cutting looks into being alone in the world and grieving lost relationships.

November 13, 2020November 13, 2020 Kristy Choung Book Reviews

Bitter Reality: Review of Douglas Stuart’s Short Story “The Englishman”

This story entails an impressively raw and explicit depiction of David’s queer sexuality through the unconventional means of a financially and sexually beneficial relationship.

November 2, 2020October 31, 2020 Regina Lim Book Reviews

Glittery and Gritty: Review of Pass with Care: Memoirs by Cooper Lee Bombardier

At the heart of the memoir are Bombardier’s negotiations with his gender presentation and identity throughout the years and the very idea of the “trans memoir.”

October 26, 2020November 11, 2020 Regina Lim Book Reviews

Everyday Fairytales: Review of Bluebeard’s First Wife by Seong-nan Ha, translated by Janet Hong

In Bluebeard’s First Wife, Ha explores big cities and small rural towns where ambition, familial responsibilities, and expectations of marriage coalesce to reveal hidden sides to neighbors, wives, and husbands.

October 12, 2020October 31, 2020 Sukhmony Brar Book Reviews

Out of Body, Out of Time: Review of Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

By way of the supernatural, Saunders splices through the content of history textbooks and captures the emotional authenticity that factual accounts will never be able to capture — the gray area that gives space to grief and longing and love.

October 7, 2020October 31, 2020 Regina Lim Book Reviews

Unsettling Glimpses into Other Worlds: Review of Mannequin & Wife by Jen Fawkes

The collection undertakes—with some success—the difficult job of creating stories that delight while carrying unsettling premises and undertones.

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