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I understand why people like these books; I’m just not one of them

The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

December 22, 2020 by Mobius_Walker Leave a Comment

Hastings is on leave from military service during World War 1. He is staying with an old acquaintance, John Kavendish, at the estate at Styles. It is not Kavendish’s house or property but that of his step-mother Emily Inglethorp who has proven to be a very generous benefactor of the war efforts. Also staying at Styles is Mary, John’s wife, Lawrence, John’s brother, Cynthia, the daughter of family friends whose parents recently passed, Dorcas, the maid, Evelyn, a friend of Emily’s, and most scandalously, Alfred, […]

Cohesive beauty that’ll knock you off your feet

An American Sunrise by Joy Harjo

December 18, 2020 by Mobius_Walker 2 Comments

Joy Harjo a member of the Mvskoke Nation and is the current Poet Laureate of the United States. In An American Sunrise, Harjo skillfully crafts a collection poems that are deeply personal to her own life, highly informative of the Native history and experience, and wonderfully universal in truth and beauty. What I found the most beautiful of the entire collection was Harjo’s ability to weave not just consistent themes throughout the entire collection but her ability to layer details, events, and people throughout the […]

A delightfully quick and fun mystery

The House on the Water by Margot Hunt

December 18, 2020 by Mobius_Walker Leave a Comment

Caroline and Esme are best friends: they survived being freshman roommates and have been close ever since. One year early on in their friendship, they make a commitment to each other to take a vacation every year together no matter what. Now, 30 some-odd years later they have stuck with that commitment, but the trip this year couldn’t come at a worse time: Caroline’s son is battling drug addiction and Esme is just coming out of a particularly nasty divorce, but they made a commitment. […]

Interesting exploration on how we find meaning, iffy delivery

The Castle of Crossed Destinies by Italo Calvino

December 18, 2020 by Mobius_Walker 3 Comments

This book is told in two parts: The Castle and The Tavern. In both situations, a group of strangers come together around a table and strangely, inexplicably find themselves all mute. They yearn to tell each other their stories, and thankfully someone has a deck of Tarot cards with which each person attempts to choose cards to lay out in various configurations in order to communicate their tale. In the first half, The Castle, things are orderly; people take turns telling their story and they […]

I’ve read scarier ghost stories for kids

The Family Plot by Cherie Priest

December 17, 2020 by Mobius_Walker 3 Comments

Mrs. Winthrop is determined to get rid of her home. It is an old, Southern Tennessee beaut of a home filled with original wood stairs and rails, original furniture from when it was built way-back-when, filled with old family belongings that to the Music City Salvage team will be worth a fortune. After the patriarch of the family-run business purchases the home he sends in his team to gather the scrap: daughter Dahlia, drunk nephew Bobby, Bobby’s son Gabe, and unrelated worker Brad. They show […]

Stick with the pieces; they’re long but worth it.

Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino

December 17, 2020 by Mobius_Walker Leave a Comment

Jia Tolentino has put together a collection of essays that span from modern womanhood to the Internet. The essays cover a myriad of topics, yet Tolentino found a way throughout all of her essays to find some throughlines. At the end of the collection, I felt that I had read a full complete collection despite the huge swath of topics. Tolentino very, very clearly sees many problems in the world and is able to articulate those issues clearly. She makes connections between problems in this […]

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