It's a Jumble

  “Over soft, layered white gowns he had on only a dress cloak, unlaced at the neck, and lying there in the lamplight against a pillar, he looked so beautiful that one could have wished him a woman.” --The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu (Penguin Classic Edition, translation by Royall Tyler)

My Locus Magazine book review from July is now available online and free to read! An Impossibility of Crows by Kirsten Kaschock is a mesmerizing Gothic science-fiction horror about a troubled chemist who decides to breed a crow as a large as a horse (and succeeds). You can find the full review here.