"The conquest of his mind by age was not a mere blunting or slowing down but an erasure, as of a desert capital by a drifting millennium of sand. Time had bleached away the ornate pattern of his intellect, leaving a blank white scrap."

"He knows that a longing for perfection is the hole in the dam that can let everything pour out."

An engrossing, unpredictable novel with a lot to say about the lengths women must sometimes go to in order to survive. A great debut novel. Pick it up.

I just finished reading this book so now I'm an excellent parent. AMA

Cheating on Goldfinch for a sec with this bit of family terror. I'm only 15 pages in and I can already tell this is going to hurt me.

Clive Barker signed this book before I had a chance to read it. I had no idea at the time this would turn out to be my favorite of his works.

"None of us ever find enough kindness in the world, do we?"

One of my very favorite books. A perfect examination of a thoughtfully religious life, especially for those of us without religion. Gilead is a comforting, beautiful masterpiece.

A feminist, time-traveling, apocalyptic love story with a heavy dose of 90s alt-rock nostalgia. The love story is painful, funny, and deliciously real. All the fantasy surrounding that story makes the relationship feel all the more grounded.