4/5 stars Breakfast at Tiffany's and Three Stories, by Truman Capote (1958) I feel like I need to say from the get-go that I have not seen the 1961 Audrey Hepburn Breakfast at Tiffany's movie... and I probably won't. I recently listened to an episode of the podcast What Went Wrong about the movie and book, which convinced me that I wanted to read it, but not that I needed to see it. The only other piece I've read by Capote is In Cold Blood, which I loved, but that is a non-fi

4/5 stars The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales & Dangerous Magic , by Leigh Bardugo (2017) Illustrated by Sara Kipin I guess I'm...

4/5 stars Green Frog: Stories , by Gina Chung (2024) Short story collections can be tough for me. Often I feel like some are great while...

3/5 stars Graveyard Shift , by M.L. Rio (2024) I absolutely loved Rio's If We Were Villains , which I have read twice. So I was excited...

2/5 stars Fourteen Days: A Collaborative Novel , edited by Margaret Atwood & Douglas Preston (2024) A novel with 36 authors sounds...

4/5 stars The Salt Grows Heavy, by Cassandra Khaw (2023) A mermaid with no tongue, who's run away from her prince husband, leaving behind...

3/5 stars Night of the Living Rez, by Morgan Talty (2022) TW: Drug & alcohol abuse These 12 interconnected stories follow a modern-day Native family living on the Penobscot Indian Nation Reservation in Maine. A young man named David is the main protagonist, and we see him at different times in his life, from 12 years old into his 20's. He lives on the rez with his mother, her alcoholic medicine-man boyfriend, and, occasionally, his older sister. Everyone smokes a lot of cigar

2/5 stars Mouthful of Birds: Stories, by Samanta Schweblin (2009) Translated from Spanish by Megan McDowell (2019) Last year I read...

4/5 stars An Elderly Lady Must Not Be Crossed, by Helene Tursten (2021) Translated from the Swedish by Marlaine Delargy Well, this was...

4/5 stars Mixed feelings: Poems and Stories, by Avan Jogia (2019) This book may be slim, but it packs a punch, exploring the complicated...

My book club, The Book Thieves, met last night to choose all of our books for 2022, and I'm excited to share the list! If anyone is...

2/5 stars Love in Color: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold, by Bolu Babalola A collection of folktales retold with a modern...

3/5 stars The Ladies of Grace Adieu, and Other Stories, by Susanna Clark (2006) Favorite quote from the book: “The governess was not much...

2/5 stars Exhalation: Stories, by Ted Chiang (2019) I didn't love this collection of stories, but I did really enjoy some of them, and...

Over the past few days I read two short books - a short story (which I first read at Bard College in a class with one of my favorite...

There are so, so many amazing books out there that it can be really hard to narrow the list down and decide what you want to sink into,...