A Struggle With A Devil Fish by Victor Hugo is taken from his 1866 novel The Toilers of the Sea. A tale of a shipwreck in the English Channel and an encounter with an octopus. This post may contain affiliate links that earn us a commission at no extra cost to you. A Struggle With […]
A taut, character-driven tale of desperation, consequence, and the systems that close in In The Suitcase by R. A. Van Vleet, we meet Robert Donegan, a man who has lost almost everything—his job, his marriage, his home. Now living with his sister, Tyne Williams, he accepts a $3,000 driving job to stay afloat. The offer […]
A loving, poetic book about how it’s okay to cry Everybody cries. It’s not so hard for little ones to let those tears fall, overcome with so much emotion they can’t understand or control, but it’s trained out of us as we grow. Kids picking on other kids being vulnerable, coaches and parents telling them […]
When a woman offers Denver’s residents the chance to be heard, stories spill out. Moving from Tennessee to Denver, from southern hospitality and close-knit communities to a place where residents are polite but distant with “big-city banter” that doesn’t quite cut it, Kelly feels a gap. She wants to know Denver on a deeper level. […]
When the first book in this trilogy ended with a woodchipper and a severed head in a bird feeder, you already knew the sequel wasn’t going to whisper. Harvest Season by Brynne Weaver opens with a defrosted body on a tarp, a raven mocking everyone in his perfect impersonation of his owner’s voice, and a […]
One by One by Freida McFadden on November 27, 2024 Genres: Fiction / Thrillers / Crime, Fiction / Thrillers / Psychological, Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense Pages: 347 Format: Audiobook Buy on Amazon Goodreads A night spent sleeping on dirt and leaves is not how Claire Matchett expected to spend her vacation. She thought this […]
Imagined futures and alternate presents, we’re big fans of Speculative Fiction. Here we’ve selected 10 Stunning Speculative Fiction Books to Read, modern masterpieces and a few classics to. Enjoy! This post may contain affiliate links that earn us a commission at no extra cost to you. 10 Stunning Speculative Fiction Books to Read Table of […]
A sharp exploration of danger, discipline, and the fragile illusion of calm Chasing Tsegi Winds is not a book you read half-heartedly; it demands careful attention to be fully appreciated. This memoir follows William Olive, a Vietnam War veteran turned balloonist and adventurer, whose deep love for geography and evident respect for the Navajo (Diné) […]
Bold, defiant, subversive, meditative Ana is a woman like any other—a mother, a career woman, a sister, a daughter. She moves through the world gracefully, orderly, giving away no reason to suspect the yearning within her, the secret desires that grow more ravenous by the day. That is, until she meets Gabriel and steps into […]
A book like Partita by Barbara Kingsolver arrives every few years and earns its place on the shelf the slow way, one sentence at a time. It is patient where most contemporary novels are hurried, and it asks of the reader something more like attention than excitement. Kingsolver’s eighteenth book of fiction, following her 2022 […]