sarahmichigan | What I've been reading

"Drown," a collection of short stories by Junot Diaz, probably best known as the 2008 Pulitzer Prize winner in fiction for his "The Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao." These short stories are all related, with repeating characters from the Dominican Republic. I think it would have been better to read this as a paperback rather than listen to it as an audiobook, because some of the short stories had sub-sections, and it was occasionally confusing to know when I was still in the same story or if I'd started a new one, particularly because some of the characters carried over from story to story. Still, I like Diaz's writing and plan to go on to read his novel.

"Unholy Ghosts" by Stacia Kane, the first in a trilogy of urban fantasy books featuring Debunker Chess Putnam, who works for the Church of the Real Truth in a post-apocalyptic time when people know God is dead, ghosts are real and only the Church can prevent the dead from terrorizing the living.

My full comments on both books here.