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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I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom by Jason Pargin

  This is a weird novel, funny--occasionally hilariously so--with occasional glimpses of things it wants to say (mainly that things probably...