Tag: review
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Oblique Conversations
Nuanced, immersive, and macabre. This book delivers so much more than the first. Settle down for a long discussion of what it all meant and why I loved it.
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Undermining Your Own Themes
Not worth the hype. A story that is constantly undermining its own themes with strange changes of direction.
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The Great War in Context
An eye-opening investigation of the Great War, arguing that nearly everything we think about it is misleading at best.
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Too Many Themes
A queer, Jewish, immigrant story that falls victim to a confused vision and a muddled structure.
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Orgasmic Descriptions of Food
This book had so much potential. An engaging misanthrope protagonist, a delightfully anachronistic world, an intriguing premise. And it wasted it all with a plot that went nowhere.
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Labyrinthine Turns of the Internal Mind
Literary fiction at its finest. A cant-put-down book that holds a mirror to the world while holding the reader captivated.
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Fireside Anecdotes
Wolhuter was the very first ranger of what would become Kruger National Park. This book is a selection of fascinating tales of a wild life in the last untamed bush of South Africa.
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Disappointing Postscript
A very short masterclass in why stories need conflict. My substantial love for the original could not blind me to the pointlessness of this story.
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The Power of Dark Academia
An amazing story that explores complex morality, faith and complex queer relationship dynamics all a setting dripping with gothic horror. It may be the best book I have read this year.
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Female Oppression and the Omegaverse
Exploring female oppression and systemic gender bias through the lens of a world without women, which makes our everyday lives look super ridiculous.