Title: The Invention of Ana Writer: Mikkel Rosengaard (translated by Caroline Waight) Publishing House: Custom House Date of Publication: February 13th 2018 Rating: 5 stars ‘’They never went hungry, but there was no electricity, and she remembered the long, dark evenings in the apartment, the afternoons when there was so little to do that she was reduced to padding at…
Category: New York
The Impossible Girl
Title:The Impossible Girl Writer: Lydia Kang Publishing House: Lake Union Publishing Date of Publication: September 18th 2018 Rating: 4 stars “The impossible girl with two hearts.” One of the most controversial, grim and fascinating aspects of the Victorian era was the exhumation and selling of corpses for medical purposes. The advancing need for therapies over a multitude of…
Miss Subways
Title:Miss Subways Writer: David Duchovny Publishing House: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Date of Publication: May 1st 2018 Rating: 5 stars ‘’Because ye old gods are not dead. They walk among us still, with their pagan ideas and habits, waiting for reanimation. They are lonely. They are bored. And very, very pissed off.’’ Well, this is a difficult task, writing…
Lies That Comfort and Betray
Title: Lies That Comfort and Betray (A Gilded Age Mystery #2) Writer: Rosemary Simpson Publishing House: Kensington Books’ Date of Publication: January 30th 2018 Rating: 4 stars ”I’ve learned to prefer the starkest of truths to the most comforting of lies.” In my opinion, there is only one city whose gritty historical background can be compared to London’s and, naturally,…
