BOOKLOVES

There is a particular cruelty in realizing you chose wrong. Not catastrophically, not obviously, but quietly — in the way a split-second decision at a concert can redirect an entire life. That is the breathtaking premise at the heart of The Night We Met by Abby Jimenez, the second book in her Say You’ll Remember […]

A fearless meta-narrative with room enough for the high-brow and the humorous Part stage script, part campus novel, part exploration of the classic literary canon, You-Gin One-Gin: Sort Of A Novel is a multi-layered story that mirrors the lives and works of some of the greatest names in Russian literature.  Beginning as a playful, fourth-wall-breaking […]

A haunting without melodrama, a reckoning without sentiment In the shadow of Mount Bigelow, a gravedigger’s casual inventory reveals the weight of history. “A little girl had a China doll, so I kept ’em together.” Then there’s a line that lands like ash: “Sadness sat as heavy as the smoky air from the brush fires.” […]

There is a particular kind of romantic tension that lives in borrowed T-shirts, shared wine glasses, and babies who fall asleep on the wrong person’s chest. Kat Singleton knows exactly how to build it — and in More than Friends by Kat Singleton, the third book in the Pembroke Hills series, she constructs it with […]

There is a particular register of Japanese fiction that does not announce itself loudly. It arrives the way a regular customer arrives — quietly, at a familiar hour, ordering the same thing. Hot Chocolate on Thursday by Michiko Aoyama belongs entirely to that tradition. Received as an advance copy ahead of its English publication, this […]