Son of Nobody - Yann Martel (Alfred A. Knopf, 2026) I recall reading an interview with Yann Martel several years ago (which I can't find online now) where he expressed that he didn't care if anybody read his books. At the time, I remember feeling annoyed. What privilege to have books published and not care… Continue reading Book Review: Son of Nobody by Yann Martel
The Wax Child - Olga Ravn (Book*hug Press, 2025) This is a book that I would describe as more style over substance. And I don't mean that to be a bad thing but it is making it hard for me to write a solid book review. The basic plot of the book is based on… Continue reading Book Review: The Wax Child by Olga Ravn
The Correspondent - Virginia Evans (Crown, 2025) This book has been getting a lot of hype amidst the circles that I run in. While I wasn't initially that drawn to the concept, my curiousity grew as people kept raving about it. When The Correspondent made it to the Women's Fiction Prize shortlist, I put my… Continue reading Book Review: The Correspondent by Virginia Evans
The Art of Looking Back - Theresa Kishkan (Thornapple Press, 2026) It's hard to know how to classify a book like this. A retrospective, part memoir, something of poetry, a statement on what it is to be a woman and look back at your life. It's a work that could really only come from an… Continue reading Book Review: The Art of Looking Back by Theresa Kishkan
April has absolutely whizzed by. At the beginning of it, we were still recovering from our trip to Hong Kong and the end of spring break. Fortunately, we had only a short week back at regular life before Easter and a long weekend. We had a fairly low key Easter this year, which was just… Continue reading 2026 Highlights: April
Read: So Long, See You Tomorrow - William Maxwell (Vintage International, 1996) Kin - Tayari Jones (Viking, 2026) The Distance of a Shout - Michael Ondaatje (McClelland & Stewart, 2026) The Astronaut Children of Dunbar Street - Wiley Wei-Chiun Ho (Douglas & MacIntyre, 2026) Chernobyl Prayer - Svetlana Alexievich (Penguin Audio, 2021) (translated from the… Continue reading What I Read – April 2026
Hunger & Thirst - Claire Fuller ( I received an Advance Readers Copy of this book thanks to the publisher and NetGalley. All opinions are my own. Publication date: June 2, 2026 I've read several of Claire Fuller's previous books (see some of my reviews here) and obviously keep reading her because I enjoy her… Continue reading Book Review: Hunger & Thirst by Claire Fuller
The Astronaut Children of Dunbar Street - Wiley Wei-Chiun Ho (Douglas & MacIntyre, 2026) The term "astronaut family" was coined in 1999 and I suppose that's around the time when I would have heard it first also. But by then it was already a concept I was familiar with. This was a term used to… Continue reading Book Review: The Astronaut Children of Dunbar Street by Wiley Wei-Chiun Ho
Part One Part Two Knowing that travelling across the world and spending 10 days in a foreign country where you don't speak the language can be overwhelming and exhausting, we planned our trip with the framework that it would get easier as we went along. Thus, we started in Kowloon, moved to Hong Kong Island,… Continue reading Spring Break 2026: Hong Kong (Part Three) – Disneyland
Kin - Tayari Jones (Viking, 2026) Annie and Vernice (or Niecey as she's known by those close to her) are "cradle friends". Two babies without mothers who are placed in the same cradle, both growing up in the Black community of Honeysuckle, Louisiana. Vernice is an orphan, taken in by her aunt, after her father… Continue reading Book Review: Kin by Tayari Jones
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