Book Review: So Late in the Day

There is a part of me that was fighting liking Claire Keegan’s So Late in the Day. I already had a beef with her because her books are all hardcover, thin, and overpriced, making them all but inaccessible to many people. Perhaps this is more a beef with her publisher. But then the issues deepened…

Multi-Book Review: Literary Books

My main beef with Orbital by Samantha Harvey? It’s not a novel. And I don’t mean it’s a novella, either, though it’s definitely short enough to be that. No, it is a book of vignettes, so maybe a book of connected short stories? Not really even that. Also, it’s something akin to creative nonfiction—the characters…