Monthly Archives: September 2024

This book hooked me so hard that I found myself picking it up at every free moment — like, I’d be in the kitchen making dinner and would jump in for a page or two while the water was coming to a boil. It was a combination of the incredible sense of closeness with theContinueContinue reading “The Bee Sting, Paul Murray”

Picked this up randomly at the library (the pleasures of the browse! Libraries are magic!), and it was such a cool, strange, eerie book. A surreal road trip adventure story of two queer women, one adolescent and one middle-aged, working through their grief and sorting out who they want to be. Ominous and tender inContinueContinue reading “Are You Listening? Tillie Walden”

I started reading this with a bookclub of wine and cider makers — people who know a lot more than I do about how things grow, in other words, and who are not academics. It was awesome, because it gave me such a different angle on the book. As we joked, whereas they tolerated theContinueContinue reading “The Mushroom at the End of the World, Anna Tsing”