All the Devils are Here by Louise Penny is the sixteenth (16th!) book in Penny’s Chief Inspector Gamache series of books. This latest one came out a couple weeks ago. I’ve never read anything by Louise Penny, so I’ve been wanting to read at least one of her books. This one is the most recent …
Chapters 1 – 3 In the Musée Rodin in Paris, Armand Gamache, a senior officer in the Sûreté du Québec (Quebec police), and his godfather, the billionaire Stephen Horowitz, sit on a wooden bench and eat pastries. They reminisce about a very familiar story of how Armand had once planned to propose to his now-wife …
In the Golem and the Jinni, Wecker has assembled a truly dazzling and inventive cast of characters, and the strength of her characters alone will probably be enough for many people to enjoy this book. There’s a master of the dark, mystical arts who seeks eternal life; there’s a a former doctor who is plagued …
Chapter 1 In 1988, Otto Rotfeld is a Prussian Jew who is arrogant and unattractive, with a leering gaze. In need of a wife, he visits Yehudah Schaalman, who deals in the dangerous Kabbalistic arts, asking him to make him a female Golem, a person made of clay. Schaalman laughs, explaining that Golems are meant …
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi (pronounced Yah Jessi) is the sophomore novel from the author of Homegoing, her 2016 novel that has been widely lauded all around. Her new novel, Transcendent Kingdom, has been one of my most anticipated books of this year. I admit that part of my curiosity was just to see if …
