Multiple Book Genres
I've been jumping around genres recently, from Japanese literary fiction to thrillers and cozy mysteries, to historical fiction.
We'll Prescribe You Another Cat by Syou Ishida, Sept. 2, 2025, Berkley, NetGalley
Genre: magical realism, contemporary Japanese fiction
The doctor and nurse at The Healing Clinic for the Soul lends out Bengal cats for a week, prescribing a cat for those with problems at home that could be fixed with a cat in the house. The stories are clever and cute, and I loved the magical and fantasy aspects of both cats and clinic, and the doctor who does the prescribing. If I did not have allergies, I'd prescribe myself a cat!
Look in the Mirror by Catherine Steadman, July 30, 2024; Ballantine
Genre: thriller, suspense
Two women, Nina and Maria, are caught up in a house that they cannot fathom, it's secret so huge literally and figuratively. Both women are warned not to enter the basement or enter any of its doors, but they don't comply, being too curious and overly adventurous.
Maria's ordeals in the basement and Nina's bewilderment at the house that her dead father bequeathed her, turn out to be a puzzle the women must play and win. The author's plot around this house as the scene for a dangerous game is intriguing and original.
Thrilling and suspenseful, the story is surprising and the ending shocking.
Two women, Nina and Maria, are caught up in a house that they cannot fathom, it's secret so huge literally and figuratively. Both women are warned not to enter the basement or enter any of its doors, but they don't comply, being too curious and overly adventurous.
Maria's ordeals in the basement and Nina's bewilderment at the house that her dead father bequeathed her, turn out to be a puzzle the women must play and win. The author's plot around this house as the scene for a dangerous game is intriguing and original.
Thrilling and suspenseful, the story is surprising and the ending shocking.
Currently reading
Genre: historical fiction, Shanghai
Description: the epic story of a brilliant young woman’s rise to fame in the perilous world of jewelry in 1920s Shanghai.
Harbin, China, 1925. Fifteen-year-old Anyu Zhang discovers a priceless Fabergé egg in the snow and returns it to the owner, Isaac Mandelburg, a fugitive former master jeweler for Russia’s imperial palace. In gratitude, he leaves her his address in Shanghai and a promise of hospitality, forever altering her fate.
Looks great
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Look in the Mirror has me totally intrigued. I think I need to check that one out. :D
ReplyDeleteI've only read the cat prescription one of these. I liked it but it got more surreal than I was comfortable with!
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