Four college boys — Eli, the scholarly Jew; Timothy, the debauched WASP; Oliver, the ambitious Kansas farmboy; and Ned, the wanton homosexual — travel Arizona over Easter break to visit a mysterious…
Category: Book a Week 2019
Rooms by Lauren Oliver
Family members converge on a house in Upstate New York upon the death of Richard Walker, their secrets and disappointments mingling with those of the ghosts of two of the house’s former…
Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire
When Nancy entered a mysterious door in the basement, she found herself in the Halls of the Dead, where stillness and silence are valued above all else. Now returned to the noise…
Another Planet by Tracey Thorn
Tracey Thorn’s “Another Planet” blends teenage diaries, historical sources, and contemporary musings to make sense of her youth in the London suburb of Potters Bar. She describes discovering boys and music, and…
Undertow by Elizabeth Bear
Against a backdrop of corporate and political intrigue, environmental and cultural pillaging, and the unraveling of the very fabric of reality, an assassin, a knowledge broker, and a “conjure man” betray, bedevil,…
Join by Steve Toutonghi
In a near future ravaged by environmental disasters, people are able to join their consciousness with others into new, multi-bodied selves, with their previously individual bodies as mortal avatars, or “drives,” through…
Fast Eddie, King of the Bees – Robert Arellano
It dawned on me rather late in the book – around page 140 or so, as the crazy train narrative was just about to leap its last rails – that there was…