RaveChicago Review of BooksA captivating novel of ideas that is also a finely crafted suspense novel ... Psychological investigations and thematic material claim center-stage. The novel’s main characters are drawn exquisitely, masterfully ... An enriching tour.
Patricia Engel
RaveChicago Review of BooksIn a prose style at once direct and lyrical, Engel gifts us stories very much of our time without being au courant or didactic.
Heather Cass White
RaveChicago Review of Books... less a bromide on the pleasures of reading and more an existential dive into the word-saturated brain. Her rewarding book pokes and probes our reading consciousness in order to overturn the nature of textual engagement, like stirring the ocean floor to find the strange, ghostly invertebrates living in its depths ... To metacognitively read about the reading process, to double back onto one’s own track, to sniff the air for one’s own scent, can be a heady experience. Cass White grounds us expertly. Books Promiscuously Read: Reading as a Way of Life is a delight to read primarily because it eschews the easy commonplaces of the \'why you should read\' genre in order to get at the core of the experience itself.
