'Her aspirations must of necessity be ridiculous, her very woes become comic, and all because of that fifty or sixty pounds of unnecessary flesh.'—Review #258| booksongif.substack.com
'Ghost Wall' by Sarah Moss, 'The Brush' by Eliana Hernández-Pachón and 'Blue in Green' by Wesley Brown—Review #257| booksongif.substack.com
'I could not, in those days, see God for His creature: of whom I had made an idol.'—Review #255| booksongif.substack.com
Your options: 'The Long Form' by Kate Briggs, 'One or Two' by H.D. Everett and 'The Gloaming' by Melanie Finn| booksongif.substack.com
'The world had whispered its rules to him for his whole life and he refused to listen, hearing instead a higher order.'—Review #251| booksongif.substack.com
'Maybe you won't be a slave, but you won't be free.'—Review #250| booksongif.substack.com
Your options: 'The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante, 'In Memory of Memory' by Maria Stepanova and 'The Actual Star' by Monica Byrne| booksongif.substack.com
The restorative powers of art and community animate this novel that's perfect for short-book summer.—Review #234| booksongif.substack.com
'Pedro Páramo' by Juan Rulfo, 'Pisti, 80 Rue de Belleville' by Estelle Hoy and 'The Employees' by Olga Ravn—Review #233| booksongif.substack.com
Books on GIF turns 8; to celebrate, here's a novel by one of my favorite authors.—Review #232| booksongif.substack.com
'And how will I be remembered, if at all, by those hundreds and hundreds of nightpeople in that long goodbye that life turns into?'—Review #230| booksongif.substack.com
'Each dish I cooked exhumed a memory. Every scent and taste brought me back for a moment to an unravaged home.'—Review #228| booksongif.substack.com
'At one time, she was very sure; the idea had felt right, and that was the important thing.'—Review #224| booksongif.substack.com
'Down the Drain' by Julia Fox, 'A Coin in Nine Hands' by Marguerite Yourcenar and 'Kappa' by Ryunosuke Akutagawa — Review #223| booksongif.substack.com
'There is nowhere I shall not drag this grotesque shadow, our joint creature.'—Review #222| booksongif.substack.com
'What good was a life of struggle with no guarantee of heaven?'—Review #220| booksongif.substack.com
'You must come with me, loving me, to death; or else hate me and still come with me, hating me through death and after.'—Review #219| booksongif.substack.com
'It's impossible to know what people have suffered unless they tell us.'—Review #218| booksongif.substack.com
'The business was felt to be so public and important that it required dinners to feed it, and many invitations were just then issued and accepted on the strength of this scandal...'—Review #216| booksongif.substack.com
'The Education of Kendrick Perkins' by Kendrick Perkins with Seth Rogoff, 'Nietzsche in Italy' by Guy de Pourtalès and 'The Castle of Otranto' by Horace Walpole—Review #215| booksongif.substack.com
'She holds my hand and I light three cigarettes with my mind.'—Review #214| booksongif.substack.com
'Was I perhaps punishing Frédérique for my love?'—Review #213| booksongif.substack.com
'How can I punish myself enough, how to open myself to the world and to death?'—Review #212| booksongif.substack.com
'Outside our small safe place flies Mystery.'—Review #211| booksongif.substack.com