Review: All Them Dogs by Djamel White

My hardcover copy of All Them Dogs by Djamel White sitting on a blue cloth surface with the front cover facing the camera.
The front cover design of All Them Dogs is striking. The jacket design is by Grace Han.

And I remembered looking back over my shoulder as we ran away, Eddie Glackin lying there alone, not a friend in sight to hold him as he bled out, and I thought what a lonely world it was for unlovable fucks like us.

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Review: Taiwan Travelogue by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ

A photo of my physical copy of Taiwan Travelogue by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ sitting on a blue patterned cloth surface with the front cover facing the camera.
I really quite like the front cover design for Taiwan Travelogue. I would like it even better without the National Book Award Winner stamped on the top right but that doesn’t detract too much from the overall design. Cover design is by Kimberly Glyder.

As we walked arm in arm in this merry mood, wind brushed against our cheeks–a wind strong enough to lift bougainvillea blossoms off their branches. Did that mean we, too, were characters in a shojo romance?

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