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St. Patrick's Day is not an Irish holiday. Not really. The biggest parades are in New York, Boston, Chicago, and Tucson. It's a diaspora holiday, built…
Read more of this comment about BrooklynSoñadores opens on a bridge "expansive like the universe," and you never quite know what kind of crossing this is; the physical US-Mexico border, or something…
Read more of this comment about SoñadoresThere is a seven-inch hole cut into the center of this novel, and everything falls through it. The hole is literal at first: a circle cut into a white…
Read more of this comment about Midnight's ChildrenUn amigo mío, que me dijo que no considerara las novelas de ciencia ficción como fantasía, sino como un texto para obtener creatividad e ideas, me hizo pensar…
Read more of this comment about Snow CrashA friend of mine, who told me not to just look at science fiction novels as fantasy but as a text to get creativity and ideas, made me think that I should…
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The Trial Franz Kafka Cuando empecé a leer El proceso, supuse que sería como la mayoría de las reseñas que decían que era difícil o pesado de leer. Pensé que…
Read more of this comment about The TrialThe Trial Franz Kafka When I began reading "The Trial", I assumed the book would be like most other reviews described it as a difficult or heavy to read.…
Read more of this comment about The TrialThe Metamorphosis Franz Kafka Metamorphosis: The process of transformation from an immature form to an adult form in two or more distinct stages. In this…
Read more of this comment about Metamorphosis and Other Stories…I found this book by chance at Barnes & Noble. The saguaro cactus on the cover stood out to me. Living in Tucson, I see saguaros as silent witnesses to…
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Writing this from Tucson, where the Sonoran Desert teaches us daily that survival is a practice, not a destination, and where "home" is still a question…
Read more of this comment about PalaverI was hooked on this book—until I wasn’t. For eleven chapters, Audition kept me gripped by a slow, growing sense of dread. It’s the kind of feeling where even…
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Annalee Newitz's book Automatic Noodle is the cozy sci-fi novella I didn't know I needed, but it was raining in Tucson after the new year, and I love ramen…
Read more of this comment about Automatic NoodleKaren Russell's The Antidote is supposedly about Nebraska farmers during the Dust Bowl, but here's what hit me sideways: this book is about us. About what…
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Taylor Jenkins Reid’s Atmosphere announces itself as a novel about astronauts, and it delivers on that promise with technical precision and breathtaking…
Read more of this comment about AtmosphereEl dilema del omnívoro El dilema del omnívoro, es que nosotros, como omnívoros que podemos comer cualquier cosa, deberíamos considerar seriamente qué comemos.…
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Long Island
Brooklyn ended with Éilis Lacey boarding a train at dawn, a secret marriage on her finger, photographs of another man at the bottom of her suitcase, and…
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