BOOKLOVES

The storm comes up out of a flat August calm. By night the sea off Whitby is mountainous, the new searchlight on the East Cliff is sweeping the water, and a foreign schooner with every sail set comes racing between the piers with a corpse tied at the helm, its head swinging with each roll. […]

Through a chink in the boards of a lean-to built against a cottage wall, a creature watches a family he has never met. There is a blind old man who plays a stringed instrument, a young woman who weeps when she thinks nobody can see her, and a young man who goes out each morning […]

A guest has come to tea dressed in black. She sits on a small, uncomfortable chair in a drawing room of rose brocade and Dresden figurines, beneath a portrait of a dead woman, and she holds a little rum cake on the edge of her saucer that she will not, under any circumstances, eat. Her […]

An atmospheric gone girl mystery with a fantastical, grisly twist As a band of four, Aislin, Breena, Vivien, and Poppy have haunted their cultish town of Devil’s Pointe, bound together by their traumatic, off-kilter upbringings.  Driven to flee from its puritanical populace, the girls spend weeks planning their escape to the woods, only to be […]

A provocative and insightful exploration of trust, leadership, and a better way to play the business game The Damn Rules by Nick Richtsmeier is a refreshing, down-to-earth book about the opposing mental models we use to approach business, leadership, and careers. Richtsmeier calls these mental models the “extractive game” and the “expansive game.” The extractive […]

There is a bumblebee on Signy’s pillow, and it should not be there. The bees live in the gardens, and Signy is in bed, in the early artificial dawn of a moonlet where the wall lights warm to orange on a schedule. She coaxes the exhausted insect into her cupped hands, walks it through the […]

The nutcracker weighs about as much as a piano. It was carved from a single log, it stands taller than most men, and on the coldest night of December Ella Chambers is dragging it, wrapped in old blankets, out of a mansion basement and across an icy driveway toward a car that is older than […]