Tag Archives: multi-culti
The Haunting of Tram Car 015 by P. Djeli Clark
Read February 2019 Recommended for fans of djinn, interesting reads ★ ★ ★ ★ Cairo, 1912 or so. There’s a ghost in Tram Car 015, although Senior Agent Hamed is fairly certain it isn’t a ghost. You … Continue reading
Earthrise By M.C.A. Hogarth
Read March 2020 Recommended for fans of light sci-fi ★ ★ ★ Taken for what it is, Earthrise is perfectly enjoyable. The captain of a ragtag ship with a mysterious benefactor has a favor called in–a rescue of … Continue reading
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
Read January 2020 Recommended for genre mash-up ★ ★ ★ 1/2 A difficult book to rate. A difficult book to rate. Following a young person desperate to get off her residential planet, it has the distinctive voice … Continue reading
Maggie Terry by Sarah Schulman
Read November 2019 For fans of NYC and addiction lit-fic ★ ★ Hey, a new category of fiction for me: the NFM. Not quite a DNF, it’s a Not For Me, a quit before I waste any more … Continue reading
When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities by Chen Chen
Read August to September 2019 Recommended for fans of poetry ★ ★ ★ #3 on the recent attempt at TBR books that Turned Out to be Okay But Not Amazing Asthetics were totally pleasing and tempting. Love … Continue reading
Blanche Cleans Up by Barbara Neely
Read July 2019 Recommended for ★ ★ ★ 1/2 The other day I was thinking about what a mystery story would be like if the main character wasn’t an investigator, or an ex-cop, or a rich person with a … Continue reading
Newcomer by Keigo Higashino
Read July 2019 Recommended for fans of Miss Marple ★ ★ ★ 1/2 In each Higashino Sgt. Kaga mystery I’ve read, he’s done something quite unique, and in Newcomer, he surprised me again with his unusual approach to the … Continue reading
Storm of Locusts by Rebecca Roanhorse
Read June 2019 Recommended for fans of UF ★ ★ ★ ★ Fast-moving, moving from a straight-forward confrontation to a search and rescue. There are a lot of similarities with the Kate Daniels series: a heroine with a … Continue reading
A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
Read May 2019 Recommended for fans of sci-fi, world-traveling ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ With reservations. What do you mean, what do I mean? There’s something about it–as good, as inclusive, as remarkable as it is–that just fails … Continue reading
Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse
Read May 2019 Recommended for fans of Kate Daniels ★ ★ ★ The short version: Kate Daniels fans need to give this one a try. The long version: Interesting world-building, taking off on the Native American idea of … Continue reading
