In my review of Uprooted, I mentioned that I had learned about it from a list I stumbled upon about standalone novels for those who enjoy reading fantasy. That’s also where I learned about Yangsze Choo’s 2013 novel, The Ghost Bride. The Ghost Bride is a novel about an ancient Chinese practice of marrying off the…
The High Mountains of Portugal is the latest novel by Life of Pi author, Yann Martel. Published in 2016, the novel consists of three separate stories that are loosely connected and set or end up in the remote High Mountains of Portugal. The first story, which is titled “Homeless,” is set in 1904 and starts at…
Uprooted is a fantasy novel by Naomi Novik published in 2015. Inspired by fairtytales and folklore, Uprooted tells the tale of a young woman, Agnieszka, from a valley surrounded by a dark and mysterious forest known simply as the Wood. The Wood is home to many evil spirits and creatures ready to abduct, kill, or…
I’ve read a few novels written by Japanese writers, and though most of them are pretty strange, Kobo Abe‘s The Woman in the Dunes really takes the cake! Published in 1962, The Woman in the Dunes, or Suna no Onna (Sand Woman) in Japanese, tells the strange and horrifying tale of a man who goes…
The Misanthropologist 