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While each separately under the command of the Falcon in the past, Lando and Han had tried to hunt down the same mysterious piece of powerful tech. Now, Han is feeling the pressure of being a father to his two-year-old son Ben, and the restlessness of staying in one spot for too long. Lando lands... Continue Reading →
What makes a narrator credible? How is that relationship built between reader and storyteller? Told through flashbacks, memory slips, fantasies, hallucinations, and journal entries, You-Jeong Jeong’s The Good Son is a Korean thriller with a most unreliable narrator. College student Yu-Jin has woken up covered in blood and his morning gets more puzzling, dark, and creepy... Continue Reading →
'A hundred years ago, The Sisters came, a string of asteroid strikes that destroyed civilization and brought on a decades-long winter.' After the initial disaster, a century of storms in England brings disease, infighting, and the decimation of all technology the world once knew. Small enclaves, clans, and even a major port or two has... Continue Reading →
“Here, we’re privileged. There, we’re nobodies.” - A white expat husband tells his black Rwandan wife the stark reality of their life in Burundi as opposed to his native France in the 1990s. But the underlying message is that she needs to turn her back on the lower class Burundians and to 'know her place.'... Continue Reading →
A Quick TBR. Just because. In order, here's a list of the books I'll be reading over the next couple weeks. Small Country by Gaël Faye. This is my current read. This is a newly translated book from France. The story of boy growing up in central Africa in the mid 90s. His mother is a... Continue Reading →
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