The Caffeinated Reader
GoodReads: When Gilbert Silvester, a journeyman lecturer on beard fashions in film, awakes one day from a dream that his wife has cheated on him, he flees – immediately, irrationally, inexplicably – for Japan. In Tokyo he discovers the travel writings of the great Japanese poet Basho. Suddenly, from Gilbert’s directionless crisis there emerges a […]
Blurb: Dan Vyleta’s SOOT welcomes us into a world in which your sin is visible, rising from the body as a plume of Smoke. It’s 1909, and desire has become a language, with bodies speaking to one another in many-coloured Smoke. There are those who celebrate this whisper of skin to skin, and those who wish to […]
Hey guys! Time for me to share what I got during my holiday! **I didn’t actually get any books for Christmas aside from my amazing gift from Secret Santa, so these are books I bought and had mailed ahead and a couple of giveaways and an ARC as well, the rest are ones we bought […]
[Artwork ^ the property of David Fickling Books (Penguin Imprint) and Knopf Books] I really don’t know how informative of a review this is going to be as I sit here like a hyper fangirl, unable to type because all I can think is ‘YAAAAS.’ [Trigger Warning: Sexual Assault/Rape Scene, though not very in-depth, still […]
The Caffeinated Reader 