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The superb story of the architect Filippo Brunelleschi and the design and construction of the …
Fascinating slice of 15c history, enjoyable (re)discovery of engineering techniques and lifetimes of cathedral building... less so the wealthy feuds and wars and squabbles. But it's mostly the former.
In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there’s only one escape from her aching loneliness and …
Interwoven overlapping generational threads of suicide, conscience, violence of school kids and world wars, with a Buddhist tinge of questioning impermanence and cause. The author's character is a little loud at times and the ending is optional.
Queer-forward YA, the witch/lesbian metaphor is direct and unexamined, in fact all the ways in which this book plays with cliche (highschool horror clique drama) are immediate and undistanced from actually being cliche. But plausibility and flat plot points aside, I enjoyed it, good dialog and themes.