Garrett Curbow is the author of Whispers of Ink and Starlight and the Daughter of Light trilogy, which was short-listed for the Publishers Weekly Selfies Award. He lives in Savannah, Georgia.
Recently I asked the author about what he was reading. Curbow's reply:
In Memoriam by Alice WinnVisit Garrett Curbow's website.
This is a brutal WWI historical fiction following the love story of two men in combat. Winn puts you right there in the trenches, describing all the horrors of war, not gratuitously, but with enough realism to give you nightmares. I don’t read a copious amount of historical fiction, but I fell in love with the main characters of this novel, Gaunt and Ellwood, and found myself fascinated by the real-world events they had to endure. Their story, spanning the years of war, is stained with loss, fear, and longing. Two men stuck in Hell-on-Earth and politically restricted from being in love.It is both a heartbreaking and hopeful novel, and I definitely recommend it, especially if you’re overdue for a cathartic cry.
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
I’ve been fascinated by the cosmos recently, and this novel scratched that itch for me. It follows Ryland Grace, a middle school science teacher on a suicide mission to save Earth from a deadly parasite. Up to the halfway point of this novel, I was enjoying the ride, but I wasn’t in love. Then, a friendship starts to bloom between two characters that changed my reading experience. This friendship becomes the beating heart of the novel. By far, one of the most creative and heartwarming pieces of science fiction that I’ve read.
Q&A with Garrett Curbow.
--Marshal Zeringue
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