Milkman is a tough read. But it is worth it.
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Milkman is a tough read. But it is worth it.
What I read in 2018!
Set in Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War, then under Franco’s regime, The Labyrinth of the Secrets follows Alicia, an investigator for the secret police with a mysterious past.
There’s not much I want to say about the plot — too much would spoil you — or the titular witch elm (really wych elm, a type of tree), but know this: it’s really, really good.
Historical fiction! Violence! Queer characters! Lust! This book has it all!
What would you do if your sister was murdering her boyfriends?
Released on Election Day, the novel tells the tale of a corrupt politician on an unnamed island who covers up killing a young college student he was having an affair with.
I’ve taken a little break from book blogging, but I had to return for one of the best books I’ve read in a really long time: Susan Orlean’s The Library Book.
What happens when a software engineer at a Google-like company gets left a mysterious starter dough? She starts baking it. Robin Sloan's second novel, Sourdough, is weird. But a good weird.