Recommendations for Adults

  In Rosarita, Booker Prize-shortlisted Anita Desai gives our heroine an uneven footing from the first, and the reader shares in the confusion (at least I sure did).  Bonita is a young woman accosted one afternoon by a theatrical older woman.  She is dropped into a situation that leaves both character and reader in the…

  Nothing better during these frosty winter months than snuggling down with a cup of something warm and a cozy read. I recently had the pleasure of curling up with Julie Leong’s debut novel, The Teller of Small Fortunes.  A fantasy tale of found family, adventure, and immigration (featuring a magical feline – I mean but…

'"You like her too much," Zamena says. Nobles are not like us. Never forget it." "She is different." "Why? Because she was born common? She isn't common now."' Costanza Casati, Babylonia, pg. 173 I'm always one to make sweeping predictions for what the new year will bring, literary-wise. Last year, I predicted that 2024 would…

  It might sound odd to close out 2024 with a deeply unsettling novel about a woman trying to solve the mystery of where she goes when she’s asleep, but I read this short novel in one sitting.  While Knutsdottir’s The Night Guest appears slight at first glance (some chapters are just a few words…