Book reviews: sharks, serendipity, ‘splosions, snapshots and spooks

Well, another five books have come and gone, so it’s time for my thoughts on the same. They run the gamut from experimental fiction to weird memoir and scientific history to gothic fantasy, so you can’t accuse me of being particularly genre-monogamous in the last little while, if that’s even a thing.

Anyway, let’s see what I read. Or heard. Or both.

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Book reviews: Plows and Cactus Boots

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk (tr. Antonia Lloyd-Jones).
My rating: five stars

I really don’t want to say too much about this book. Because I feel that to say too much would rob you of the absolute fucking joy of reading it for the first time yourself.

(Yes, it’s that good.)

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