Infinite Books

A blog about my adventures in reading…

Book reviews

  • “Ghost Music” by An Yu

    One day, a package of rare mushrooms is delivered to the doorsteps of the Beijing apartment where Song Yan lives with her husband. The sender is unknown, but the mushrooms came from Yunnan province, and Song Yan’s visiting mother-in-law immediately decides to cook them. They were his son’s favorites when he was a boy and

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  • “Hestia Strikes a Match” by Christine Grillo

    Hestia Harris uses mainly two apps on her smartphone: one is checking for terrorist threats in the area, and the other is … a dating app. It’s 2023, and the United States is in the middle of a civil war. The country was divided; some states were pro-Union, while others separated and called themselves the

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  • “The Medici Murders” by David Hewson

    Venice is one of my favorite cities worldwide, so I jumped right into the story when I learned about the new Venetian mystery novel. The author, David Hewson, notes that in Italian, the word “storia” indicates both history and a story. Fittingly, the novel’s main plot is a story of murder in Venice, but in

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