16 reviews 6 YES · 6 DEPENDS · 3 DNF · 1 NO Who this is

• LITERARY FICTION Roundtable Blindness José Saramago · 1995 It is also unusually good at showing that morality is not separate from logistics. A Production Failure With No Rollback YES
• NONFICTION Roundtable Into Thin Air Jon Krakauer · 1997 I would recommend it to anyone interested in how systems fail when everybody involved is tired, invested, and convinced that the next step is still manageable. The Mountain Is Not the Only Thing That Fails DEPENDS
• CLASSICS Roundtable Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen · 1813 So, yes, this is a romance with a satisfying ending. A Very Good Book About Getting Your Own Judgement Wrong YES
• HORROR Roundtable Swan Song Robert R. McCammon · 1987 It is also sincere about the value of work, memory, loyalty, and the decision to help someone else when there is no reward for doing so. A Very Long Way to Get Back to the Human Bit YES
• LITERARY FICTION Roundtable Theo of Golden Allen Levi · 2023 It did not need ninety-two portraits of the same idea. A Very Generous Book That Does Not Know When to Stop DEPENDS
• LITERARY FICTION Roundtable Yesteryear Caro Claire Burke · 2026 The premise is strong, the voice is committed, and several scenes are difficult to forget, particularly the first encounter with the altered ranch, the failed bread, the dead chickens and Clementine’s arrival in the red Subaru. A very efficient machine for making its point YES
• NONFICTION Roundtable Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Robert M. Pirsig · 1974 So I am glad I read it, but I would not describe the experience as consistently enjoyable. A Very Long Argument About Doing the Boring Bit Properly DEPENDS
• ROMANCE Roundtable Beard on Tap Willow Sanders · 2021 But both of them describe Gemini's body in identical terms, so every other chapter pauses for an inventory of her curves regardless of whose head we're in. The beard is a decoy; the bar is the love story DEPENDS
• CRIME & THRILLER Roundtable Bits and Pieces Nichole Severn · 2021 It is messy and a bit soapy, and it is also the only time the book lets his compulsion cost something real. She Hadn't Burned His Clothes DEPENDS
• ROMANCE Roundtable His Secret Child Leslie North · 2015 Instead, I just kept thinking about how quickly a relationship built on one person holding all the capital and all the authority would turn suffocating. You cannot physically melt a phone over Starbucks Wi-Fi DNF
• ROMANCE Roundtable Kingdom of Thorns Katherine Macdonald · 2020 The romance itself is the primary focus of the book, and your tolerance for it will dictate whether you finish the novel. A structural patch for a broken fairy tale DEPENDS
• ROMANCE Roundtable Shadow Assassin Elle James · 2021 The shower scene the following morning was my stopping point because I no longer wanted to test whether the thriller would recover its urgency. By the second morning, I no longer believed the danger DNF
• ROMANCE Roundtable Some Like It Psychic Ruby West and Ella Winters · 2021 But a fine premise doesn't survive a system with no rules, stakes with no weight, and jokes in every gap where tension was supposed to build. The Darts Reload "Magically," and So Does Everything Else NO
• SCIENCE FICTION Roundtable Station Eternity Mur Lafferty · 2022 Earlier in the book she melts her dead husband's gold locket to plug a hull breach, because it is twenty-four karat and will hold. It Took a Grandmother to Fix the Station YES
• HORROR Roundtable The Gospel of Z Stephen Graham Jones · 2014 It desperately wants to be perceived as a serious logistical exercise, but underneath all the grime, it is just a frantic and disjointed action film. Edge cases masquerading as a plot DNF
• LITERARY FICTION Roundtable The Value of Rain Brandon Shire · 2011 The book does not resolve his rage, because it knows that rage built him. Rain as Arithmetic YES

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