{"id":55673,"date":"2025-10-05T01:13:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T01:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/55673\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T01:13:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T01:13:22","slug":"the-best-reviewed-books-of-the-week-book-marks-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/55673\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2039 The Best Reviewed Books of the Week Book Marks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lily King\u2019s Heart the Lover, Mariana Enriquez\u2019s Somebody is Walking on Your Grave, and Souvankham Thammavongsa\u2019s Pick a Color all feature among the best reviewed books of the week.<\/p>\n

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Fiction<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Heart<\/a><\/p>\n

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1. Heart the Lover<\/a> by Lily King
(Grove)<\/p>\n

8 Rave \u2022 1 Mixed
Read an interview with Lily King here<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cFor its first half\u2026a wry, witty, exquisitely evocative campus tale, a fevered fiction of a youthful love triangle, and a reflection,\u2026on the growth and development of a writer. By the end, it stands as one of the most emotionally devastating and soulfully wise novels I have ever read \u2026 Literary without pretension, emotional without maudlin sentimentality. It must be said, however, that King skirts perilously close to the latter in Part 3, and it is a tribute to the power of her moral vision, the precision of her prose, and her animating empathy that the novel avoids bathos and pulls off these wild swerves convincingly \u2026 Heartrending, swoonily romantic, rigorously clear-sighted.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013Priscilla Gilman (The Boston Globe<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"Pick<\/a><\/p>\n

2. Pick a Color<\/a> by Souvankham Thammavongsa
(Little Brown and Company)<\/p>\n

4 Rave \u2022 2 Positive
Read an excerpt from Pick a\u00a0Color here<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cA feat of economy, unspooling Ning\u2019s emotional journey amid the cage of her salon \u2026 Punches above its weight. Thammavongsa\u2019s minimalism conveys a range of tones and psychological nuances as she grapples with the stubborn prejudices of class \u2026 Wily and caustic, the book condemns petty Western narcissisms yet allows for bursts of radiance.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013Hamilton Cain (The Washington Post<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"What<\/a><\/p>\n

3. What a Time to Be Alive<\/a> by Jade Chang
(Ecco)<\/p>\n

2 Rave \u2022 4 Positive \u2022 2 Mixed<\/p>\n

\u201cThe novel is propulsive because [of] Lola \u2026 She is psychologically complex, straddling both beautiful sincerity and utter vapidity \u2026 [Chang\u2019s] prose is infectiously funny, and her ability to satirize rich people paying silly amounts of money to be led to their souls has only sharpened.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013Valorie Castellanos Clark (The Los Angeles Times<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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Nonfiction<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Somebody<\/a><\/p>\n

1. Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave: My Cemetery Journeys<\/a> by Mariana Enriquez
(Hogarth)<\/p>\n

4 Rave \u2022 2 Positive
Listen to an\u00a0interview with Mariana Enriquez here<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cPart travelogue, part memoir\u2026part history, myth and legend. Even readers who lack her taste for the macabre will be enticed by Enriquez\u2019s infectious enthusiasm for her subject \u2026 Seen through Enriquez\u2019s eyes in this highly original book, these sites are more than just monuments to the dead; they tell us how people lived in the past, as well as how they live now.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013Lucy Scholes (The Financial Times<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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2.\u00a0The Eternal Forest: A Memoir of the Cuban Diaspora<\/a> by Elena Sheppard
(St. Martin\u2019s Press)<\/p>\n

4 Rave \u2022 1 Positive<\/p>\n

\u201cA compelling meditation \u2026 Beautifully crafted \u2026 This is Sheppard at the height of her powers, weaving Cuban history, myth, and literature through the fabric of her family\u2019s narrative of exile. Her prose, coupled with the vignette structure of the memoir, reads like an excavation of memory \u2026 Exquisite.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013Lael Flores (The Southern Review of Books<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"Scream<\/p>\n

3. Scream with Me: Horror Films and the Rise of American Feminism (1968-1980)<\/a> by Eleanor Johnson
(Atria Books)<\/p>\n

1 Rave \u2022 3 Positive<\/p>\n

\u201cThis commentary on the horror genre\u2019s ability to shape and echo the political landscape is riveting, enlightening, and occasionally scream-inducing in its reminders of the not-so-long past. Readers should expect to be entertained while finding new respect for the genre, though the author does not sugarcoat the abuses of the male directors behind the projects.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013Jaclyn Fulwood (Shelf Awareness<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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