Hello and welcome back! This is our final category in these prestigious literary awards and the one I personally find the hardest. Fiction by far dominates my reading each year and I think I read a fairly wide variety of fiction which also makes it hard to choose my favourites. This year I've narrowed it… Continue reading The Annual Karissa Reads Books Literary Awards: Best Fiction
Month: December 2024
Book Review: God of the Woods by Liz Moore
Guys, why did I think this was a sasquatch story? Why did I spent at least two thirds of this book waiting for a sasquatch to show up? I swear I remember reading this in a blurb or review somewhere but I obviously got it mixed up (or vastly misunderstood). So, let's be clear: there… Continue reading Book Review: God of the Woods by Liz Moore
The Annual Karissa Reads Books Literary Awards: Best Canadian Book
Hello and Welcome Back! Today we're delving into Can Lit. In case you didn't know, I'm a Canadian and I strive to read Canadian fiction. I do this for a lot of reasons but primarily because I actually think Canadian writing is largely really good. I believe that our literature is one of the areas… Continue reading The Annual Karissa Reads Books Literary Awards: Best Canadian Book
The Annual Karissa Reads Books Literary Awards: Best Short Story Collection
Welcome back! Today's focus is short stories. I love short stories and I always wish I read more of them. There's something so satisfying about sitting down and reading an entire story in one gulp. For this category, I'm looking at what was the most satisfying over all collection of short stories. In 2024, I… Continue reading The Annual Karissa Reads Books Literary Awards: Best Short Story Collection
2024 Highlights (Taylor’s Version)
Almost three weeks ago, just before my birthday, our family went for lunch at the local cidery. Peter told me he had a scavenger hunt planned for me. “Don’t get your hopes up too high,” he told me. “This is mostly for the girls.” Our family loves a good scavenger hunt so I happily went… Continue reading 2024 Highlights (Taylor’s Version)
The Annual Karissa Reads Books Literary Awards: Best Translated Work
Welcome back! Best translation is always a category that I wish was a bit bigger or more exciting around here. Although I always put "Read More Translated Work" on my Reading Goals year after year, I never quite hit the goals I reach. That said, I think the effort is important and worthwhile and it's… Continue reading The Annual Karissa Reads Books Literary Awards: Best Translated Work
Book Review: Shy Creatures by Clare Chambers
Shy Creatures - Clare Chambers (Mariner Books, 2024) Helen Hansford is an art therapist, working as an art therapist at Westbury Park, a psychiatric hospital. The year is 1964 and art therapy is still something of a new idea. Helen enjoys her work and is challenged by it but psychotherapy is on the cusp of… Continue reading Book Review: Shy Creatures by Clare Chambers
What I Read: November 2024
Read: The Mythmakers - John Hendrix (Abrams, 2024) The Leopard - Giuseppe di Lampedusa (translated from the Italian by Guido Waldman) (Pantheon Books, 2007) Tyll - Daniel Kehlmann (translated from the German by Ross Benjamin) (Pantheon Books, 2020) Rainbow Valley - L.M. Montgomery (Seal Books, 1976) James - Percival Everett (Doubleday, 2024) The Christian Book… Continue reading What I Read: November 2024
The Annual Karissa Reads Books Literary Awards: Best Non-Fiction
Hello and welcome! I'm back with the (somewhat) Annual Karissa Reads Books Literary Awards! I've been doing this for a few years now (inspired by the incomparable FictionFan). My attempt at these awards petered out last year due to the craziness that was my life in December 2023 but this year I've started early and… Continue reading The Annual Karissa Reads Books Literary Awards: Best Non-Fiction
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