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Astro City Metrobook, Volume 2

Astro City Metrobook, Volume 2

By
Kurt Busiek
Kurt Busiek
Astro City Metrobook, Volume 2

The first series I've read in ages that I would describe as "impeccable", probably? Just gorgeously, brightly, expressively drawn characters with deeply thoughtful and emotional stories. The tales in and around a world where superheroes exists but so do real, normal people. What a fun anthology series I can't wait to keep digging into.

2024-07-11T00:00:00.000Z
So Late in the Day: Stories of Men and Women

So Late in the Day: Stories of Men and Women

By
Claire Keegan
Claire Keegan
So Late in the Day: Stories of Men and Women

This is a slim volume with three very well-written short stories you could read in an hour or two. I could feel the craft in the small, surprising details or the slightly slanted internal monologues of each character. Very enjoyable in its slightly acidic tone, too. There's just so little of it before it's over!

2024-07-02T00:00:00.000Z
Invisible Man

Invisible Man

By
Ralph Ellison
Ralph Ellison
Invisible Man

A challenging but rewarding literary achievement. I won’t pretend I tracked every idea as it veered from campus farce to Southern nightmare to urban political satire, stopping along the way to debate the value of protest, tease intra-party pettiness, even dance with the charged world of interracial sexuality. This book has so much to say that’s as relevant today as it was in the 1940s(!) — even if I could use a college seminar to help unpack it all.

2024-06-25T00:00:00.000Z
Crying in H Mart

Crying in H Mart

By
Michelle Zauner
Michelle Zauner
Crying in H Mart

This book will make you incredibly hungry and wistfully sad many, many times over the course of its several sweet and eloquent chapters. Zauner uses a simple and honest directness to unpack her relationship to her mother and cultural identity that makes what could be a mopey navel-gazing exercise into a real pleasure to read.

2024-06-10T00:00:00.000Z

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