Tough Luck by Sandra Dallas

May 13, 2025

It’s been more than a few years since I read one of Sandra Dallas’ books, although she wrote two books I still remember and recommend, The Persian Pickle Club and Tallgrass. In fact, Dallas’ notes say she thought she had retired from writing....

The Rainfall Market by You Yeong-Gwang

April 26, 2025

I switched from those short Japanese collections to a novel set in South Korea. The Rainfall Market is by You Yeong-Gwang, translated by Slin Jung. The Acknowledgements are interesting in that the author crowdsourced the publication of his book, and wrote it during...

Kate & Frida by Kim Fay

March 11, 2025

Kim Fay’s novel, Love & Saffron, was published in 2022, one of my favorite novels that year. It was subtitled “A Novel of Friendship, Food, and Love”. I picked it up at the time because it was an epistolary novel, told in letters, and I’ll...

The Cat Who Saved Books by Sosuke Natsukawa

January 23, 2022

If you love books, physically as well as for the contents, you might want to pick up Sosuke Natsukawa’s The Cat Who Saved Books. If you’re like me, and appreciate all the little tidbits, I’d suggest you skip to the end of the book before reading it....

Lightning Strike by William Kent Krueger

August 17, 2021

Lightning Strike is the eighteenth Cork O’Connor mystery by William Kent Krueger, but don’t hesitate to pick it up if you haven’t read the other books. The sensitive, moving book is a prequel, set in the summer of 1963 when Cork is twelve. Krueger...