For The Book Obsessed
Should you read that book you’ve had your eye on? Will it totally rock or sink like a stone? Check out these book reviews from book lovers like you to help you find your next great read!
[ad_1] The Glass Hotel is the title of her fifth novel, and the key to entering novelist Emily St. John Mandel’s world; the glass hotel first appears in her second novel, The Singer’s Gun. The office tower where Anton works is reflected in the glass hotel adjacent: “He tried to watch every reflected window at … Read more
[ad_1] As an experiment, I shut my eyes and flipped through the pages of Nick Flynn’s new book, Stay. Eyes still closed, I stopped flipping, jabbed my index finger at the open page and decided to write down whatever line I was pointing to. When I opened my eyes, this is what I read: “All … Read more
[ad_1] If the saying is that “sex sells,” I feel confident that in the year 2020, politics may have stolen its mantle. In Docile, K. M. Szpara unites both. Pitched as a dystopian parable about love and sex, it centers around Elisha Wilder, a young man from rural Maryland whose family has been ruined by … Read more
[ad_1] It’s Japan, right around 1990. Three college guys go to meet three college girls at a small diner. One, named Ryusei, becomes smitten with a girl named Miwako. The two begin spending lots of time together, mostly reading. No matter how close they get, she refuses to go on an official date with him, … Read more
[ad_1] “In Other Words” is Bradley Babendir’s bi-monthly column exploring new works in translation. There’s a lot going on. I read three books about other times when there was also a lot going on. Maybe there is always a lot going on. I didn’t feel particularly soothed or distracted by these books—not particularly certain that … Read more
[ad_1] We have been living in the future for a while now: drones deliver packages, watches track vital signs, meat substitutes grow in labs. No matter the modern problem, there’s an app for that. Even the self-driving car seems a plausible possibility. Despite these innovations, none of us seem happier for it. Political polarization, melancholy, … Read more
[ad_1] Burning Worlds is Amy Brady’s monthly column dedicated to examining how contemporary literature is addressing climate change, in partnership with Yale Climate Connections. Subscribe to her monthly newsletter to get “Burning Worlds” and other writing about art and climate change delivered straight to your inbox. What do the climate crisis and artificial intelligence have … Read more
[ad_1] In Beyond The Sea, Paul Lynch takes a panga boat lost at sea and fashions it into a story that seems to inhale and exhale with the very days and nights experienced on Earth. The novel, which was released overseas last year, begins when Bolivar, a fisherman mixed up with a cartel, coerces Hector … Read more
[ad_1] Thriller writers Kathleen Barber (Follow Me), Elizabeth Little (Pretty As a Picture), and Lori Rader-Day (The Lucky One) answered some literary-adjacent (and some not adjacent at all) questions of their own devising. The answers cannot be used against them in a court of law or to make them uncomfortable when meeting in person. (Note: … Read more
[ad_1] The Ides of March are upon us — the 15th to be exact — but here at the ChiRB we’re more about commemorating dates than “bewaring” them (or so advised the soothsayer in William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar). You could spend the day with a hefty history book or biography of Caesar, but if those … Read more