Boughtbooks

It is a book vast both in its scope and in its detail, Eleanor Catton's Booker-winning novel The Luminaries, and it is on that account that I shall set down here only a scattering or a sketch of the long experience...

Except when it's chosen for me by a member of the Beer & Books intelligentsia, I stay pretty firmly in my lanes when it comes to book selections. I've got several lanes, mind you, so genuinely I do get some diversity in my reading (SOME, though at heart I'm ...

On the positive side (I guess it's positive?), I liked Becky Chambers' debut novel The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet a lot more than I did 

Sometimes I have to remind myself that George Bowering and George Fetherling are different, in much the same way that sometimes Billy Joel and Elton John combine at times in my memory: little in common beyond accidents of alphabet and artistry (loosely speaking), but somehow that's enough for my small brain.

I'm not sure that I've read Fetherling's fiction before; I've ...

Tl;dr - Rufous and Calliope, by Sarah Louise Butler, is for me shockingly good, deeply intimate, and irreplaceable. Buy extra copies so you can give them to people you love.