Tag: magical realism
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Book Review: Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
I avoided this book and the movie like the plague as a kid, even though I was weirdly obsessed with behind-the-scenes footage of the movie and the whole idea of Terabithia. Even though by now I’ve read much heavier books, I still put it off and had to force myself to pick it up. Honestly,…
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Book Review: The Dinner List by Rebecca Serle
As soon as I saw that Audrey Hepburn was a character in this book (and on the cover of the edition I bought), I picked it up, no questions asked…
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Book Review: The Rainfall Market by You Yeong-Gwang
Lonely and barely getting by, Serin wishes she could change her life. Living with her mother in poverty after the death of her father and her sister has run away, she feels isolated and without direction for her future. Her only hope is a ticket to the ‘Rainfall Market’…
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Book Review: The Vanishing Cherry Blossom Bookshop by Takuya Asakura
I have been loving this genre of cozy Japanese magical realism books lately. A small part of me was nervous that I would be fatiguing myself with these types of books by picking this up relatively soon after the last one (given it’s not a go-to), but it’s now one of my favorites in the…
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Book Review: A Fig for All the Devils by C.S. Fritz
I normally don’t reach for horror, but after hearing Ian Gubeli talking about it on YouTube, I couldn’t pick it up fast enough. The passages he shared were stuck in my head before I even read the book…
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Book Review: Water Moon by Samantha Sotto Yambao
In a magical Tokyo pawnshop, people who find it are given the choice to pawn their regrets. Hana inherits the shop from her father, and on her first day, she wakes to the shop ransacked and her father missing…
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Book Review: Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
I’ve been wanting to read this book since I fell in love with the (short-lived) Broadway musical. Why did I put it off for so long?! Although the book is short, it is so lovely…
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Book Review: The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit by Sara Jane Loyster
The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit is one of my favorite paintings. I was ecstatic to see that someone had written a novel inspired by it! Going in, I didn’t realize it would be a time travel story. While those are hit or miss for me, I enjoyed how this one was done. It worked well…
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Book Review: Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
The cover of this book has been jumping out at me since it was published and I’ve heard a number of different people reviewing it and speaking about it, but for some reason, I wasn’t super interested in picking it up (the idea of a narrating octopus, perhaps?) until a friend of mine gave a…