Danzy Senna

Unconventional and ambitious, New People by Danzy Senna is exceptionally written, though I came away from it feeling very underwhelmed. I love a short book as much as the next reader, and I usually don’t face any issues regarding length, but in this case, New People needed to be longer. Its plot felt incomplete, its […]

On My Nightstand: December 2018

Finals week is here and I am dying inside. Add the holiday shopping stress and the fact that I am moving to Florida for the spring semester, and, no joke, I feel like my head is about to explode. But here is a list of books I want to read this month, because no matter […]

A Ladder to the Sky // John Boyne

After The Heart’s Invisible Furies became one of my favorite reads of 2018 (full list to come!), I was desperate to get my hands on a copy of A Ladder to the Sky. I could not put this book down; I read it in a day over a nice, long Thanksgiving weekend, more specifically Sunday, […]

Goodbye, Vitamin // Rachel Khong

Like my most recent read, Conversations with Friends, I devoured Goodbye, Vitamin in just two days, 190 pages and all. The novel, witty and endearing, with the subjective style of dark humor that not every reader finds appealing, is Khong’s first, and a tremendous feat for a debut novelist, exploring style and structure in an […]

Jesmyn Ward: November 15, 2018

Last week I had the opportunity to witness Jesmyn Ward speak in front of a packed auditorium regarding her latest novel, Sing, Unburied, Sing, the title that won her a second National Book Award. Though I still haven’t finished the topic of discussion, I was still excited to attend the event, half-hoping that Ward’s words […]

Conversations with Friends // Sally Rooney

I inhaled Conversations with Friends, reading it in a fever over the course of two days. I’ve been eager to read Sally Rooney for a while, quite certain I would like her books; I decided to start with Conversations, her debut novel, over the more recent Normal People, and I was pleasantly surprised by how […]

Norwegian Wood // Haruki Murakami

Norwegian Wood was my first Murakami, and I’ve heard it’s a good place to start, especially for us readers who prefer contemporary over fantasy. Plus, in an interview with Timothée Chalamet, Harry Styles named it as his desert island book, so I was sure I picked a good one (and you can’t argue that logic!!). […]