On reading – Page 5 – The Dust Lounge

On writing reviews and on writing words

On why I mostly talk about books I love, and on how new words are eeking out and what they’re eeking out to.

Iglesias’ brutal, beautiful Coyote Songs pulls no punches in a powerful look at life on the border.

A short update from me as we find ourselves a third of the way through 2020. In which I don’t seem to have done a lot, and that’s ok.

A horrific, brutal, beautiful book, sure to hit the 2020 horror best-of lists.

Hagemann’s novel is shocking, challenging and fascinating. A book that brilliantly blurs the lines between documentary and fiction.

Nevertheless She Persisted: Flash Fiction Project is a brilliant collection of short doses of defiance.

Carey brings us a dystopian future where nature has teeth.

Max Barry brings us a high octane space adventure in this fantastic sci-fi escapism

Gibson follows up The Peripheral with a fast paced adventure into a new stub, with some Artificial Intelligence which has all kindsa sass