Darryl Oliver

Good Morning America Book Club Pick Explores A Father’s Disappearance

Angie Kim’s Happiness Falls (Hogarth) expertly balances a page-turning plot, beautiful writing, and memorable characters to tell a story of love, family, and the importance of communication as the Parkson family tries to figure out what happened to their missing father. Kim captures our attention immediately with her choice of…

Darryl OliverSeptember 6, 2023

Fiction

Anthology of Stories Set in New York City Explores the Human Experience

The best stories are those that tap into what it intrinsically means to be human. By doing so, we’re connected not only with the characters within said stories but also with our fellow readers experiencing their journeys. In his second collection, Witness (FSG), Jamel Brinkley captures this phenomenon across ten…

Darryl OliverAugust 7, 2023

Fiction

A Greek Language Teacher and His Pupil Bond in This Meditative Story of Human Connection

Han Kang’s Greek Lessons (Hogarth) is another extraordinary display of prose coupled with an unsettling, yet deeply resonate, narrative. This meditative novel is an exploration of language and empathy that examines our connection to the world and one another. The narrative itself is quite straightforward — a young woman who…

Darryl OliverMay 11, 2023

Fiction Recommended Thrillers

With No Memory of Their Trip, One Couple Fights to Grasp Reality in Paranormal Horror

The Sundial Inn (FriesenPress) by Stephen John Ross is haunting in the best sense of the word. From the protagonist to the eponymous inn, this novel begins in eerie fashion from the very first sentence, which only continues in this paranormal thriller. We’re welcomed to a world that is extremely…

Darryl OliverMarch 23, 2023

Fiction Recommended Thrillers

A Man’s Moral Struggle in a World Ravaged by Nuclear War

What happens when a corrupt theocracy stages a political coup in the aftermath of an apocalypse? How do individuals react? How does society move on? Justin O’Donnell ponders those questions and more in his near-future post-apocalyptic thriller Failed States (Atmosphere Press). Surviving the Aftermath of War Here we’re introduced to…

Darryl OliverJanuary 18, 2023

Nonfiction

And It Suddenly Struck Him: ‘I Think I Can Write a Novel’

In an autobiographical memoir of sorts entitled Novelist as a Vocation (Knopf), the wonderous author Haruki Murakami, as his fans might anticipate, shares his love for baseball and describes his experience as a young man sitting beyond the outfield fence smelling the grass, admiring the sparkling blue sky and sipping…

Darryl OliverDecember 6, 2022

Fiction Thrillers

Humankind Faces Off Against Sentient Octopus Species in Futuristic Thriller

Ray Nayler’s debut is a dazzling exploration of consciousness, morality and environmentalism delivered through the vehicle of a near-future thriller. Complete with androids, espionage and corporate greed, the pages practically turn themselves in The Mountain in the Sea (MCD) — and we haven’t yet mentioned the hyper-intelligent humanlike species of…

Darryl OliverDecember 2, 2022

Darryl Oliver

With No Memory of Their Trip, One Couple Fights to Grasp Reality in Paranormal Horror

A Man’s Moral Struggle in a World Ravaged by Nuclear War

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