“We are earmarked, each and all of us, she thought, for the great slaughterhouse of time, and know no more than these poor beasts do when or where or how the killing blow will fall.” Liam Higginson, THE HILL IN THE DARK GROVE #sundaysentence

Donald Trump every single day: "Here's a definitive statement that contradicts my definitive statement from yesterday and which won't be true tomorrow. Also, it's a lie."

From @BookPage my review of Booker Prize winner (SHUGGIE BAIN) Douglas Stuart’s new novel, JOHN OF JOHN: www.bookpage.com/reviews/john... @groveatlantic.bsky.social

“We all die, but only some of us know our lives could end soon.” Siri Hustvedt, GHOST STORIES: A Memoir #sundaysentence

From @bookreporter.bsky.social my review of Tom Perrotta’s latest novel, GHOST TOWN: www.bookreporter.com/reviews/ghos... @scribnerbooks.bsky.social

“If all stories are fiction, fiction can be true—not in detail or fact, but in some transformed version of feeling.” Jayne Anne Phillips, SMALL TOWN GIRLS #sundaysentence

If we’re talking about expelling people from government for sexual assault there’s an important one that needs to go…

From @bookreporter.bsky.social my review of @praddenkeefe.bsky.social’s outstanding LONDON FALLING: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family’s Search for Truth: www.bookreporter.com/reviews/lond...

From @shelf-awareness.com my review of Maggie O’Farrell’s beautiful new novel, LAND: www.shelf-awareness.com/theshelf/202...

From @readbookpage.bsky.social my review of Ben Lerner's novel TRANSCRIPTION: www.bookpage.com/reviews/tran...

This T-shirt needs to be replaced after 37 years, don’t you think? I’m hoping @umichbball.bsky.social gives me a reason to do that this weekend. Go Blue!

From @bookreporter.bsky.social my review of Colm Toíbín's short story collection, THE NEWS FROM DUBLIN: www.bookreporter.com/reviews/the-...

“I wonder if I am alone in feeling that Texas is a place for grieving.” Colm Toíbín, “Barton Springs” in THE NEWS FROM DUBLIN #sundaysentence

From @shelf-awareness.com my review of Jim Rasenberger’s A PERFECT COINCIDENCE: The Extraordinary Friendship and Astonishing Deaths of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson: www.shelf-awareness.com/theshelf/202...

“They noticed each other with the devotion of astronomers mapping new planets." Matt Haig, THE MIDNIGHT TRAIN #sundaysentence

A wise friend of mine shared these words today in a group text and I thought I would pass them along: "Remember to judge people almost tenderly because there’s always a side you can’t possibly know, some story you couldn’t make up and some battle waged you didn’t have to fight."

"He guarded his words as if they were money that would be spent once spoken." Matt Haig, THE MIDNIGHT TRAIN #sundaysentence

From @bookreporter.bsky.social my review of Helen Garner’s STORIES: The Collected Short Fiction: www.bookreporter.com/reviews/stor...

From @shelf-awareness.com my review of Francine Prose’s novel about Charles Dickens and Hans Christian Andersen, FIVE WEEKS IN THE COUNTRY: www.shelf-awareness.com/theshelf/202...

From @readbookpage.bsky.social my review of Tom Junod’s memoir IN THE DAYS OF MY YOUTH I WAS TOLD WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A MAN: www.bookpage.com/reviews/in-t...

"Love will not survive a channel crossing, I pointed out, let alone the thirty-six hours from Melbourne to London." Helen Garner, "La Chance Existe," in STORIES: The Collected Short Fiction (2026) #sundaysentence

From @shelf-awareness.com my review of Jayne Anne Phillips’s SMALL TOWN GIRLS: A Writer’s Memoir: www.shelf-awareness.com/theshelf/202...

If football coaches called press conferences after the first quarter to explain the brilliant strategy they employed to get a 7-0 lead, that would be Pete Hegseth and Dan Caine.

From @shelf-awareness.com my starred review of @theatlantic.com reporter Megan Garber’s SCREEN PEOPLE: How We Entertained Ourselves Into a State of Emergency: www.shelf-awareness.com/theshelf/202...

“She simply needed a way to end her hair and start her face.” Douglas Stuart, JOHN OF JOHN #sundaysentence

From @bookreporter.bsky.social my review of Mark Haddon’s LEAVING HOME: A Memoir in Full Colour: www.bookreporter.com/reviews/leav...

Douglas Stuart’s upcoming novel JOHN OF JOHN could provided a #sundaysentence for many weeks. Here’s one: “The colour presented as a hollowness, as though the left side of his face was made of ice too thin to walk on.”

From @bookreporter.bsky.social my review of Jonathan Miles's novel, ERADICATION: A Fable: www.bookreporter.com/reviews/erad.... Like @mdbell79.bsky.social, who reviewed it for @nytimes.com, I thought it was an excellent novel.

I had to wait to read @mdbell79.bsky.social's excellent review of Jonathan Miles's latest novel, ERADICATION: A Fable until I filed mine. Now that I have, I'm happy to see we agree in our assessment. Look for my review for @bookreporter.bsky.social here later this week.

“The sea was so calm as to suggest it’d decided to sleep in, its waves brushing up like the untroubled breaths of a slumbering giant.” Jonathan MIles, ERADICATION: A Fable #sundaysentence

“Before I end my letter, I pray Heaven to bestow the best of Blessings on this House and all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise Men ever rule under this roof.” John Adams to Abigail, on his second night in the White House, 11/2/1800 😢

Scandal added bubbles to the champagne, sweetness to the puddings.” Francine Prose, FIVE WEEKS IN THE COUNTRY. #sundaysentence

From @bookreporter.bsky.social here’s my review of George Saunders’s novel VIGIL: www.bookreporter.com/reviews/vigil

From @shelf-awareness.com, here's my review of Adam Phillips's THE LIFE YOU WANT: www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?i...

“Americans don’t do politics—they do tribalism. Jayne Anne Phillips, SMALL TOWN GIRLS: A Writer’s Memoir #sundaysentence

I could claim this AI legal software was named after me in honor of my 41-year career in the law, but if you were a fan of the TV show “Suits,” you’ll know the truth: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/b...

From @bookreporter.bsky.social my review of Gabriel Tallent’s second novel, CRUX: www.bookreporter.com/reviews/crux

From @shelf-awareness.com here’s my review of Maria Adelmann’s novel THE ADJUNCT: www.shelf-awareness.com/theshelf/202...

I was honored to participate in this MLK Day community program hosted by my synagogue and to read this sentence from Dr. King’s “I Have a Dream” speech.

Happy place. A joy to be reading here this afternoon.

“We’re seeing—and creating—a condition in which facts seem ever more fungible, in which history that doesn’t fit neatly into the form of a movie seems less true than the history that does.” Megan Garber, SCREEN PEOPLE #sundaysentence

@meganewrites.bsky.social Thanks for the follow, Megan. Let me know if you’ve found any more of our fellow @bookreporter.bsky.social reviewers here.

Looking forward to this one. Read his recent interview in the New York Times if you haven’t already done so.

“Getting out of a hospital is like escaping a casino, they don’t make it easy for you.” Ben Markovits, THE REST OF OUR LIVES. #sundaysentence And as a bonus, here’s my review of the novel for @bookreporter.bsky.social: www.bookreporter.com/reviews/the-...

From @bookreporter.bsky.social my review of Ben Markovits’s novel, THE REST OF OUR LIVES: www.bookreporter.com/reviews/the-...

From @readbookpage.bsky.social my interview with Stefan Merrill Block and my review of his new memoir, HOMESCHOOLED: www.bookpage.com/interviews/s...

“In any case, this world is in such bad shape that anyone who does not actively seek ill to others is doing an enormous good.” Vicente Luis Mora, CENTROEUROPA #sundaysentence

Final two book reviews of 2025 . . . filed.📚

“Long nose, long eyelashes, almost cartoonish, his features interchangeable like on a Mr. Potato Head, as if you could pluck out his mouth and put it where his ear had been.“ Maria Adelmann, THE ADJUNCT (coming in March 2026) #sundaysentence