book reviews

  • Annihilation was a hell of a book. It’s one I enjoyed, am glad I stumbled across, even gladder I read, and am still a bit unsure about who exactly I can recommend it to. Annihilation is the kind of book that is necessarily polarizing, not just because of the way that it tells its story,…

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  • We all live in tiny worlds of tragedy. Some books celebrate this concept, others mock it, or satirize it, or try to pretend it isn’t so. The Boy Detective Fails by Joe Meno is the kind that embraces it with a big, squishy heart. This isn’t a novel you’d call experimental, exactly, and the writing…

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