Inconvenient Separations

Book Review of “Brides in the Sky: Stories and a Novella” by Cary Holladay.

My Top 5 Favorite Books of 2018

2018: The year of the “only by a whisker” books.

Yes, the time has come once again for me to give you all my roundup of my favorite books published over this past year. I have to warn you however, I’m going to cheat a tiny bit with my non-fiction book this year. See, although this book was originally published in 2017 in the UK, I think it deserves to be on this list, because the majority of my readers (who live outside the UK) could only get hold of it in 2018. That said, while there were fewer books that got a full five stars from me this year, the quality of these books – be it the writing or the content of these stories – was such that it was very hard for me to rank them for this list; each one edged out the next by a whisker. So here you go, in descending order (for now. I reserve the right to change the order and/or add the book I'm reading as of this writing, if it measures up):

Fictional blogging for her life

Book Review for "Undiscovered Gyrl" by Allison Burnett

A fine (gay) romance

Book Review for "The Apple Polisher" by Heidi Belleau

The Scent for Infatuation

Book Review for "Nectar: A Novel of Temptation" by Lily Prior

A Slice of Glasgow's Darker Corners

Book Review for "The Cutting Room" by Louise Welsh

Stories that reveal much but say little

Book Review for "White Tiger on Snow Mountain: Stories" by David Gordon