Saturday, March 15, 2025

What Fire Brings by Rachel Howzell Hall

 

I read this book this evening, and it really wasn't anything like as good as the O'Connor, or any of six other books I've read this month. Cluttered and muddled, with a deeply deranged unreliable narrator powering twist after twist after stupid twist. It would probably have been a mercy if I'd stopped when she used "epitaph" when she meant "epigraph." That should have been a sign ...

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The World Made Straight by Ron Rash

 This book seemed as though it might be some sort of Appalachian Noir type stuff, something on the lines of what David Joy's been doing,...