The Rhesus Chart by Charles Stross.
“Don't be silly, Bob, said Mo, everyone knows vampires don't exist!" This is the one with vampires in it. And investment bankers. Who are the greater bloodsuckers, you might ask? Trick question, they are one and the same. Up until this point, a lot of the workplace drama side of The Laundry … [Read more]
Privacy's Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance by Cindy Cohn
I got an alert that Privacy’s Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance by Cindy Cohn, Executive Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation was ready for me to pick up from the library. I didn't remember putting it on hold and I could not fathom why I would want to read a … [Read more]
If you haven't read Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt - go do it! It's a classic of children's literature, and one of those elevated children's texts that reads well as an adult - but also it's short and sweet, which busy adults can appreciate. Not to mention the story is about life and death, and … [Read more]
Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke
Yesteryear is the debut novel of Caro Claire Burke, and is centred on a delightfully fiendish "what if". What if a popular American tradwife influencer one day found herself living in actual pioneer times? Such a simple conceit, and yet so thoroughly engaging. So it pains me to say: this book … [Read more]
The Good Liar by Denise Mina
I'm not sure how I first heard of The Good Liar (2025) by Denise Mina, but I probably saw it on some end-of-the-year-best-novels list. Mina seems to be a pretty prolific writer, but she was new to me. The Good Liar is a thriller/murder mystery that takes place in London. On the whole, I found this … [Read more]
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
Not too much to say on this outside of the fact that the it went on just way too long. And I thought the one daughter, Emily, was insufferable throughout. I think if Patchett had shortened things a bit that the book would have been perfect. Tom Lake follows Lara Nelson as she and her family … [Read more]
