Read: Nightbitch - Rachel Yoder (Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2021) Good Dirt - Charmaine Wilkerson (Penguin Random House, 2025) (narrated by January LaVoy) Honeydew: Stories - Edith Pearlman (Little, Brown and Company, 2015) Tenth of December: Stories - George Saunders (Random House, 2023) The Wedding People - Alison Espach (Macmillan Audio, 2024) (narrated by Helen… Continue reading What I Read: June 2025
Nightbitch - Rachel Yoder (Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2024) The protagonist of Nightbitch is a young mother of a toddler, a two-year-old boy, who gave up her career as an artist to be a stay-at-home parent. Her husband has a demanding job, one that takes him out of town from Monday to Friday. This is… Continue reading Book Review: Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder
Intermezzo - Sally Rooney (Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2024) An intermezzo, in music, is a short instrumental movement between larger acts. In chess, it refers to an unexpected move that forces an immediate response. Reading these definitions after I finished Sally Rooney's most recent novel, it struck me immediately what a fitting title the book… Continue reading Book Review: Intermezzo by Sally Rooney
Read: Unearthing - Kyo Maclear (Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2023) What Does the Bible Really Teach About Homosexuality? - Kevin DeYoung (Crossway, 2015) The Fire Still Burns - Sam George (Purich Books, 2023) The Matisse Stories - A.S. Byatt (Vintage, 1994) Hello Beautiful - Ann Napolitano (Books on Tape, 2023) The Leap Year Gene -… Continue reading What I Read: April 2024
Read: Life and Holiness - Thomas Merton (Herder and Herder, 1963) Stone Blind - Natalie Haynes (Harper, 2022) Picnic at Hanging Rock - Joan Lindsay (Penguin Books, 2017) Cousins - Aurora Venturini (translated from the Spanish by Kit Maude) (Soft Skull Press, 2023) When Women Were Dragons - Kelly Barnhill (Random House Audio, 2022) Life… Continue reading What I Read – May 2023
Read: The Marriage Portrait - Maggie O'Farrell (Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2022) The End of the Affair - Graham Greene (Heinemann, 1966) The Pull of the Stars - Emma Donoghue (Harper Avenue, 2020) Where the Crawdads Sing - Delia Owen (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2018) Classic Crime Short Stories (Canongate Books, 2007) The Three Lives of… Continue reading What I Read – January 2023
The Marriage Portrait - Maggie O'Farrell (Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2022) Lucrezia is the youngest daughter of Medicis of Florence. Raised in luxury but strictly watched over by her mother and father, her life as a young girl in the 1550s is dictated for her from birth. Yet there is a wildness to her, something… Continue reading Book Review: The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell
Hello and Welcome Back to the final installment of the Fifth Annual Karissa Reads Books Literary Awards! Undoubtedly, most of what I read is fiction so this final category is the Big One. I have my top 5 below but some other titles I greatly enjoyed reading in the past year are (in no particular… Continue reading Best Fiction: The Fifth Annual Karissa Reads Books Literary Awards
Read: Fleishman is in Trouble - Taffy Brodesser-Akner (Random House, 2019) Next Sunday - Nancy Beach & Samantha Beach Kiley (IV Press, 2022) An Island - Karen Jennings (Hogarth, 2022) Five Tuesdays in Winter - Lily King (Grove Press, 2021) 1,000 Coils of Fear - Olivia Wenzel (Catapult, 2022) (translated from German by Priscilla Layne)… Continue reading What I Read – June 2022
As I found when I first read Sally Rooney earlier this year, she once more in her latest novel nails human nature. How people communicate, how they react, how they act when they are alone. In Beautiful World, Where Are You, Rooney focuses on slightly older characters, right on the cusp of change that turning… Continue reading Book Review: Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney
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