5/12/2023 0 Comments Nightvine by Felicia Davin![]() ![]() I felt like this worked best when it was focused on the doors and the attempts to escape from the bad guys. ![]() ![]() THE TEN THOUSAND DOORS OF JANUARY by Alix Harrow. I learned a lot here and it definitely made me think about how I interact with wild animals. Roach writes great popular science books (BONK and STIFF about the science of sex and what happens to human cadavers, respectively, are both fabulous) and this one is about humans’ interactions with wildlife. Oh! And there’s an absolutely FABULOUS interview between Laymon and Tressie McMillan Cottom on the Ezra Klein Show (Tressie is guest hosting) about what it means to revise art and what it means to be a responsible artist and in dialogue with the world around you. I’ve been thinking about it since I finished it. Laymon grew up in Mississippi with an abusive mother and there’s just so much in here about trauma, love, social pressure, violence, and a sense of home and how much all of those things shape you. This memoir (as the title clearly says!) is pretty heavy. I’m enjoying the evolution of the characters’ relationships and the found family angle. This is the third Wrexford and Sloane mystery. I’ve just realized that nothing I’ve read over the last couple of weeks has been a straight up romance, but I would consider them mostly romance adjacent? ![]()
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