Weird Fiction is a difficult genre to describe, but you know it when you read it. Stories that get categorized as Weird Fiction often take […]
Fiction
Great Reads for Autism Acceptance Month
April is Autism Acceptance Month! This observance, now increasingly led by autistic self-advocates, seeks to open discussion and celebration around life with autism spectrum disorder. […]
Speculative Fiction: Jessamine Chan and Jo Harkin
Speculative fiction or science fiction… these books could fall under both genres. Scientific advances drive the plots, but these are set in worlds that *almost* […]
Moon Witch, Spider King, Bewildered Reader
One of my favorite books from recent years is Black Leopard, Red Wolf (BLRW) by Marlon James, a fantasy novel with sharp, African twists on […]
New Fiction In Three Genres
Are you a reader who reads all kinds of different books? Because I’m a reader who reads all kinds of different books… and I’ve been […]
Black History Month: New Af-Am Fiction
As we celebrate Black History Month, here is a list of new titles in the Heights Libraries African-American Fiction collection. We want to lift these […]
Toni Morrison’s Sula
Jamaican-born author Marlon James has recently become one of my favorites. I have blogged about his novel Black Leopard, Red Wolf in the past, and […]
The Bobby Gold Stories by Anthony Bourdain
Before vaulting to fame with Kitchen Confidential and shows like No Reservations, Anthony Bourdain penned a series of crime novels in the late nineties. All […]
When you just want to get away
I don’t know about you, but when the weather turns snowy and gray, I long to be somewhere much more tropical than Cleveland. Since travel […]
