Shelf Reflections

Embassytown by China Mieville

“In the city known as Embassytown, humans live in an uneasy alliance with the Hosts, aliens who speak with two[…]

“Little Red Riding Hood’s real name is Gretchen Schwarzwald, and she is from the Schwarzwald (the Black Forest) in Germany.[…]

“When Sergeant Hallie Michaels comes back to South Dakota from Afghanistan on ten days’ compassionate leave, her sister Dell’s ghost[…]

“Valerie McTeague’s business model is simple: provide the students of Edgewood College with a late-night study haven and stay as[…]

“Welcome to Andover… where superpowers are common, but internships are complicated. Just ask high school nobody, Jessica Tran. Despite her[…]

“Adam Thorn doesn’t know it yet, but today will change his life. Between his religious family, a deeply unpleasant ultimatum[…]

“When Daniel Blackland was six, he ingested his first bone fragment, a bit of kraken spine plucked out of the[…]

“Mary Robinette Kowal stunned readers with her charming first novel Shades of Milk and Honey, a loving tribute to the[…]

“Angel Crawford is a loser. Living with her alcoholic deadbeat dad in the swamps of southern Louisiana, she’s a high[…]

“In the early 20th Century, the United States government concocted a plan to import hippopotamuses into the marshlands of Louisiana[…]