A house with a dark secret. A creeping sense of foreboding. A story told through documents, footnotes, and scraps of paper. House of Leaves is like nothing I’ve read before. How this story is told is as much a part of the experience as the story itself. In a committed storytelling device, we meet ourContinue reading “family book club: house of leaves”
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family book club: icy sparks
Normally I’m begging for authors not to explicitly spell things out for their readers. We’re smart, and we can tell who is sad without having to read “John is sad.” But in Icy Sparks by Gwyn Hyman Rubio (Kindle version here), I needed some things to be spelled out. It was an easy read, but one thatContinue reading “family book club: icy sparks”