Read Stories Instead
Victorians liked to tell ghost stories around the hearth at Christmas. Here’s an old-but-timely one you can share around yours, even if it involves Zoom and/or the Yule Log channel.
We’re almost done with this, um, interesting year. That in itself is cause to celebrate. (photo credit:Patrick A. Mackie)
In this final novel of The Daevabad Trilogy, Ali, Nahri, and Dara are morally challenged beyond endurance by the rise of death magic in their beloved kingdom. How they respond changes everything.
Craig Laurance Gidney’s Marsh-bell Queen is half muse, half greedy ghost, and all fascinating.
There is so much out there to read, and until you get your turn in a time loop, you don’t have time to read it all to find the highlights.
Butterfly Lampshade is Aimee Bender’s first novel in a decade and the follow-up book to her incredible short story collection The Color Master (2013). A book about memory and isolation that we didn’t know we needed.
Taylor Jenkins Reid’s novel Daisy Jones & The Six is an exhilarating take on 1970s rock ‘n’ roll told in a fun and unique way. Reid pulls back the curtain on “sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll” to get to the heart of the experience of female artists in this entertaining “behind-the-scenes rock documentary” about a (fictional) rock ‘n’ roll legend.
Cadwell Turnbull's new novel — the first in a trilogy — imagines the hard, uncertain work of a fantastical justice.