Category: Historical Fiction
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Book Review: Tokyo Ueno Station
This post contains major spoilers. This post also contains affiliate links. If you buy through Bookshop.org, I may earn a small commission—at no extra cost to you. Thanks for supporting the blog and indie bookstores! Tokyo Ueno Station by Yu Miri, translated to English by Morgan Giles, is a 168-page contemporary fiction. From the publisher: A surreal, devastating story of a homeless ghost who haunts one of Tokyo’s busiest train stations. Kazu is dead. Born in Fukushima in 1933, the same year as the Japanese Emperor, his life is tied by a series of coincidences to the Imperial family and…
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Book Review: The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
A lyrical retelling of the Iliad through the eyes of Patroclus, The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller explores love, fate, and heroism in a story as tender as it is tragic. Read the full review of this modern Greek myth retelling.
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Book Review: The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff
A powerful story of a servant girl’s survival in the unforgiving wilderness, The Vaster Wilds explores faith, resilience, and humanity’s fragile place in nature.