Marion: After The Necessity of Stars by E. Catherine Tobler, I read Laird Barron’s Blood Standard, Book One in his action/crime series featuring Isiah Coleridge. It’s filled with quirky characters, gore, violence and the weird, breath-taking scenic descriptions I expect from Barron. It didn’t resonate with me but I always appreciate his writer’s eye and his prose.
Bill: Since our last status I read:
- The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty — a very fun middle-aged mom-as-pirate tale
- Dead Country by Max Gladstone: a welcome return to the highly recommended Craft series
- Clytemnestra by Costanza Casati: a solid retelling of (most of) the Greek story with a strongly realized titular character at its center
- Fields of Light and Shadow by David Young and The Last Two Seconds by Mary Jo Bang: pair of poetry collections that just weren’t for me,
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Always my pleasure, Marion! And Part 2 of this review should be appearing soon....