White Dancing Elephants | 
pickThe stories in this collection are varied in tone and style but are consistently excellent. I find that I‘m thinking a lot about the epigraph, which is from Seamus Heaney‘s poem “Punishment,” a poem about complicity. And I‘m wondering how or whether to see this collection with that frame—many of the stories are about the ways people fail each other, about cruelty or loss or missed opportunity. Lots to think about, for sure.
pickStunning short story collection about women of all shapes and forms. Bad women, sick women, good women, queer women! Definitely one of my fave of the year. A perfect mash up of genres & almost impossible to label- this is one to read.
When you go away for 2 months in the summer, you might come home to this. 💕 (I also came home to rotten, mushy veggies my husband didn‘t eat, cracked tiles in our new kitchen floor, a dead tree limb hanging too high up to safely pull it down, and the quiet of a house without Jazz man but I‘m going to focus on the good. Ie the picture above.)
#NetGalley has changed the way I read in the past three months. I‘ve been mostly ignoring my physical collection of books, and instead searching the newest releases available for request on NetGalley. There‘s something to be said about reading a book while before the majority of the population has read it. I love going into a book with no preconceived opinions, no outsider information, no expectations. This is one I‘ve heard nothing about. ⬇️
