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The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
A beautiful and very Jewish novel about life and death.
Read MoreMy Top 13 Books of 2014
I read 79 novels or author collections in 2014. Of those, 31 were written by woman and 48 were written by men. 49 of the novels were “core” genre in that they were recognisably written or published by someone...
Read MoreSo, who should win this year’s Man Booker?
I’ve now read all six books nominated for this year’s Man Booker prize and it’s a strong list of novels. This is the first time I’ve read through an entire Man Booker shortlist so I can’t say with...
Read MoreBook Review: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
Meet the Cooke family. Our narrator is Rosemary Cooke. As a child, she never stopped talking; as a young woman, she has wrapped herself in silence: the silence of intentional forgetting, of protective cover. Something happened,...
Read MoreSome thoughts on the World Fantasy Nominees
So the world fantasy award nominees were announced a few days back. If you don’t already know who is on the ballot, you can find out here. Overall it’s a ballot I endorse (because, of course, World Fantasy has been...
Read MoreNominating the Hugos – Novellas, Novelettes and Short Stories
Because I’m a realist and I know I’ll run out of time, I thought I’d throw my nominations for novella, novelette and short story together in one post. Novellas ‘‘Times Table’’, Robert Shearman (Everyone’s Just...
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