True Biz is tender and eye-opening. Sara Nović expertly manages to educate her readers on Deaf culture and communication with a light enough touch that we’re still carried away in the fictional lives of these characters and their school, too.
I want Kate Racculia’s Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts to be a movie. I want to see the characters in the flesh – they were each so totally distinct and full and fun. And I want to see Boston come alive on the screen as a love letter to the city plays out in this fantastic book.
Matt Haig’s The Midnight Library is a case of the right book coming to me at the right time; it might be my favorite read this year. Although there are content warnings for death, grief, addiction, depression/anxiety, and suicide, this somehow manages to be an endearing, funny, inspiring, philosophical, and ultimately redeeming book.
It does not surprise me that it took Anthony Doerr 10 years to write his adult fiction novel All the Light We Cannot See. It is a beautifully written, carefully plotted book that – despite being somewhat lengthy at 544 pages – relies on each and every word to convey story, meaning, and emotion.
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The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker is a dense read, with new characters and plot lines introduced even 3/4 of the way through the book. Keeping up with every detail, every motivation, every twist was a bit laborious, but the book is saved by Wecker’s clear, insightful writing, and the powerful charisma of the Golem and the Jinni themselves.
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