for lovers of literature and culture
Suicide isn’t the only way you can lose someone to depression. Übermensch to Darius, p. 286 A four hour read that’s a lot more uplifting than the above quote suggests. I loved this book from its front cover to its end. Darius Kellner speaks better Klingon than Farsi, and he knows more about Hobbit social […]
If Clap When You Land is on backorder at your local bookstore, see if With the Fire on High is available. Honestly, it’s a great book to read regardless of Acevedo’s other accolades. Side note: an easy book to read while miles deep in brain fog. Ever since she got pregnant freshman year, Emoni Santiago’s […]
When Margo Roth Spiegelman beckons Quentin Jacobsen in the middle of the night – dressed like a ninja and plotting an ingenious campaign of revenge – he follows her. Margo’s always planned extravagantly, and, until now, she’s always planned solo. After a lifetime of loving Margo from afar, things are finally looking up for Q… […]
It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will be busier still. By her brother’s graveside, Liesel’s life is changed when she picks up a single object, partially hidden in the snow. It is ‘The Gravedigger’s Handbook’, left behind there by accident, and it is her […]
At some point, the books in our usual realm of reading can become monotonous. So I’m turning to authors that I haven’t given much notice to before and expanding my reading list with some new and old books whose roots lie in South Asia. 1) Darius the Great Is Not Okay by Adib Khorram Adib […]
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