review: the duncan mccormack series by liam mcIlvanney
I think I just found my newest crime-thriller fixation. Liam McIlvanney’s Duncan McCormack is the series I’ve most thoroughly enjoyed...
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Chai
- Jul 27
- 5 min
review: wuthering heights by emily brontë
I am just on fire with so much admiration for Emily Brontë right now. Wuthering Heights is a beautiful, devastating, and profoundly...
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Chai
- Jul 15
- 5 min
review: the kingdoms by natasha pulley
A good book consumes you even as you consume it, and The Kingdoms is a damn good book. It was all-consuming, as engulfing as a fever....
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Chai
- Mar 2
- 5 min
review: red, white & royal blue by casey mcquiston
Ah, yes, the one trope that sings to me the most: rivals to “if we never have to be in the same vicinity as each other, it'll be too...
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Chai
- Feb 20
- 6 min
review: gods of jade and shadow by silvia moreno-garcia
Gods of Jade and Shadow feels told rather than read, and it pulled me back into the memory of the stories my mother used to tell me. I...
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Chai
- Feb 10
- 6 min
review: the space between worlds by micaiah johnson
“Have you encountered any others who have truly met themselves?” This line from Carmen Maria Machado’s short-story collection Her Body...
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Chai
- Feb 4
- 5 min
review: mexican gothic by silvia moreno-garcia
Mexican Gothic is a sublime work of post-colonial gothic. It’s a story that unsettled me so effectively I found myself, on more than one...
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Chai
- Jan 31
- 3 min
review: the bear and the nightingale by katherine arden
A large pleasure in re-reading a favorite book is to experience that sense of almost-newness: to recognize and relive everything again...
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Chai
- Jan 31
- 2 min
review: black sun by rebecca roanhorse
It's hard to talk about this book because it is so many things at once. It's a heady epic and an intimate portrait of people wracked with...
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Chai
- Jan 23
- 4 min
review: the traitor baru cormorant by seth dickinson
How do you talk about a book that has completely obliterated your capacity for language? For days after I finished reading The Traitor...
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Chai
- Jan 22
- 2 min
review: tender by sofia samatar
I am incapable of reading anything Sofia Samatar writes without the tumbling headlong desire to put my whole body into her words, to...
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Chai
- Jan 22
- 3 min
review: a spindle splintered by alix e. harrow
Alix. E. Harrow is one of my auto-buy authors, and her debut novel, The Ten Thousand Doors of January—a book about stories and doors and...
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Chai
- Jan 21
- 2 min
review: summer sons by lee mandelo
This book seduced me with its promise of spooky times and long stretches of repressed miserable queer longings and subsequently hooked...
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