January 2024 – scintilla.info

Book Review: The Guests, Agnes Ravatn, translated by Rosie Hedger                 Fiction: The Guests, Agnes Ravatn, translated by Rosie Hedger   Karin and Kai live a reasonable, middle-class life. Kai is a joiner (carpenter), Karin is a lawyer. They have two sons. To the world, they seem like […]

  Zero Kill, M.K. Hill Paperback publication celebration January 18, 2023 We will be reviewing this book later. Just a few chapters in it is very intense and fast paced. Definitely a thriller in enjoying. For now, though, congratulations on the release of the paperback edition. Buy it!

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Book Review: Black Water Sister, Zen Cho Fantasy/Mystery: Black Water Sister, Zen Cho   “The first thing the ghost said to Jess was: Does your mother know you’re a pengkid?”   That is the first line of Black Water Sister by Zen Cho, a genre shredding book that is a mystery wrapped in a fantasy […]

Book Review: Idolatry, Aditya Sudarshan Book Review: Idolatry, Aditya Sudarshan   Sometimes I wonder whether I should give up reading American and European authors in order to make time for the extraordinary voices coming from other parts of the world. I won’t actually do that, but when a book like Idolatry comes to my attention, […]

Book Review: Halfway House, Helen Fitzgerald Fiction: Halfway House, Helen Fitzgerald   Lou is ready to start over. Coming off of a relationship with an older married man, she is leaving Australia and moving in with her cousin in Edinburgh, Scotland. That’s just what the doctor ordered: a new city, a new part of the […]