Read: August 2025 (thank you, Nan!)

Reviewed: I came to appreciate this novel gradually. I didn’t like the first chapter at all, so had to be won over. I’m a sucker for a good haunting, and this book has a decent one. It’s set during the pandemic and it was definitely interesting to look back from a few years down the road. (Side note: we saw Eddington — Ari Astor starring Joaquin Phoenix — while I was reading this, a very different story set during the pandemic!)

There are definitely some good potential book club topics throughout, but the thing I loved most about the book was the loving depiction of the bookstore it’s set in, and the people who work there. Gave me definitely warm fuzzies for booksellers, and I was awash in that when I went to East Bay Booksellers recently and plucked three books off the staff recommendation shelves.