Andromeda | new Substack: Present Tense Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Andromeda | new Substack: Present Tense

Speaking of pick-me-ups. Novel I read on flight to Toronto for cleanout duty: I ONLY CRY WITH EMOTICONS by @yuvizalkow. Laughter at the perfect time. Lovely, multilayered comic novel new from @RedHenPress.

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I'm halfway through Ramona Emerson's SHUTTER (thriller involving forensic photography, set in Navajo Naition) and loving it. Folks say Tw doesn't sell books but I buy books after seeing recs here all the time! Next up: Gabino Iglesias's THE DEVIL TAKES YOU HOME. @Gabino_Iglesias

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Fascinating think-piece by Amy Gentry, author of GOOD AS GONE. Missing Girls, Monsters, and the Emotional Stakes of Genre https://t.co/xQKknXwG67

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@andibartz This reminds me of the PW review Leah Konen's YOU SHOULD HAVE TOLD ME--something about it bogging down in complaints (and objections to too much breastfeeding)? This is something I'd like to write about! Language used to review women suspense authors. Would love to hear from you.

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Current read:The Work Wife by @alisonbhart. Loving it. Next up: @JenniferHillier's Things We Do in the Dark and @jverchwrites's After the Lights Go Out. (Only a coincidence they both portend darkness.) Now you know my taste, what should I put on the TBR next? I'm on a summer roll

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An interesting analysis of BLONDE that makes me want to read the original Joyce Carol Oates novel and skip the movie. Thanks @heidiseaborn1. https://t.co/9JgT5BXm6K

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Having so much fun reading Jennifer Hillier's THINGS WE DO IN THE DARK that at 2pm I said, "Oh f*** it" and made a lemony gimlet, put on a bikini and filled the kiddie pool. Vacation is a state of mind. (Let it be known I am now returning to work at 4pm w coffee mug in hand.)

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Shout-out to fellow @antiochmfa alum @toniannjohnson whose new linked story collection, LIGHT SKIN GONE TO WASTE, winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, is getting its first reviews. On my TBR for August. Congratulations, Toni Ann! https://t.co/irThieLDpX

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@GuerillaMemoir Oh my whole life for 25+ years has been run on that principle, from the first time we surveyed the Sea of Cortez in a sailboat to write a book about John Steinbeck. (Always a little risky to expense sailing but it can be done and travel generally=good deductions!)

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Congrats @danyakukafka, author of NOTES ON AN EXECUTION (one of my 2022 faves) for making yet another great "read this thriller now" list, and I agree. Other fascinating ones here as well, set in Mexico City, Hong Kong and elsewhere. Where to begin? https://t.co/7IeVGSScNi

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