| Hello, readers. Well, this has been a week. Do you find it harder to read during times like this? Or do books become more necessary for you, like a little portal for your mind that you can just hop right through? I tend to be more the first, but when I work up the energy to open a book, it usually does help. If you've been able to read this week, I hope Harrow the Ninth has been helpful for you. It's a good book for thinking about trauma, I think, and we'll get into that more next week when our discussion post goes up. Meanwhile, if you missed our discussion of Gideon the Ninth, you can catch up on that here. | | | | | Friday, January 15, 2021: Discussion post on Harrow the Ninth Thursday, January 28, 2021: Our live Zoom event for both books will be at noon ET. RSVP now to join us for a moderated conversation with the author, including audience Q&A. | | | | | My recurring column Ask a Book Critic made its triumphant return this week, as I recommended books for finding joy in daily life and a salt-and-vinegar book to shock your system awake. Meanwhile, Alissa Wilkinson recommends the graphic novel The Hard Tomorrow for thinking about our uncertain future. Plus, Vox gender reporter Anna North just published an excellent alternate history Western called Outlawed, about a band of gender-nonconforming outlaws. It was just announced as a Reese's Book Club pick, and I am cheating on the Vox Book Club by announcing as much in our very newsletter because that is how good Outlawed is. (Anna and I used to sit next to each other back in the before times of offices so I am biased, but I have been an Anna North fan since her Jezebel days, long before we started working together, so I know she can write regardless of how nice she is. And anyway, I would never lie to you about the quality of a book.) I think "bone frenzy" might be a term open to coarse misinterpretation, —Constance | | | |
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