People We Meet on Vacation, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Ugly Love, and my first ever Colleen Hoover!
Reading in 2022
Expectations, trends, and wistful thinking... in publishing, reader sites, booktok, bookstagram, booktwt, and more.
The Best and Worst of 2021: For Readers Only
Among other things, 2021 was a great year to read. Reading is an activity ready-made for COVID: it's done alone, often at home, but it also creates communities—both on the page and around the world. Featuring dark academia, science fiction, and reading slumps.
Book Review | A Memory Called Empire
Arkady Martine has, with one stunning novel, cemented herself among the Science Fiction greats. Plus, A Memory Called Empire is *fast*. Fast like a heart-pounding, adrenaline-rich action thriller, not to mention genuinely funny, emotional, and meticulously constructed.