Read: Pick a Colour - Souvankham Thammavongsa (Knopf Canada, 2025) (narrated by Zoe Doyle) White Nights - Fyodor Dostoevsky (Random House UK, 2025) (narrated by Luke Thompson) After Birth - Elisa Albert (Mariner Books, 2015) The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins (Penguin Classics, 1998) Ripeness - Sarah Moss (MacMillan Audio, 2025) (narrated by Flora Montgomery) The… Continue reading What I Read – October 2025
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What I Read: February 2025
Because I forgot to mention it last month - I've made the switch from Goodreads to StoryGraph. Feel free to find me (I'm Karissareadsbooks) there if you also are a user. Read: The Dearly Beloved - Cara Wall (Simon & Schuster Audio, 2019) Abigail - Magda Szabo (translated from Hungarian by Len Rix) (New York… Continue reading What I Read: February 2025
Book Review: The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
The winter holidays are an excellent time to dive into Charles Dickens' work. And while I didn't read all of this over my Christmas break, I did give it a good start and finished a couple weeks later. (It's not short!) I've read some of Dickens' work where I've been grabbed almost immediately and others… Continue reading Book Review: The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
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
What I Read: September 2024
Read: The Names of all the Flowers - Melissa Valentine (The Feminist Press, 2020) Land of Big Numbers - Te-Ping Chen (Mariner Books, 2021) Really Good, Actually - Monica Heisey (Harper Collins, 2023) The Epic of Gilgamesh - trans. N.K. Sandars (Penguin Classics, 1964) The Husbands - Holly Gramazio (Doubleday Canada, 2024) The Heaven &… Continue reading What I Read: September 2024
What I Read: August 2024
Read: The Fox Wife - Yangsze Choo (Henry Holt & Company, 2024) A Room of One's Own - Virginia Woolf (Penguin Modern Classics, 1975) In the Woods - Tana French (Penguin Books, 2017) The Likeness - Tana French ( Penguin Books, 2017) The Coast Road - Alan Murrin (Harper Via, 2024) Lifelines - Heidi Diehl… Continue reading What I Read: August 2024
What I Read: May 2024
Read: Doppelganger - Naomi Klein (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2023) Kingdom, Grace, Judgement - Robert Farrar Capon (Eerdmans, 2002) Held - Anne Michaels (McClelland & Stewart, 2023) Last Woman - Carleigh Baker (McClelland & Stewart, 2024) The Book of Goose - Yiyun Li (Macmillan Audio, 2022) Present Over Perfect - Shauna Niequist (Zondervan, 2016) The… Continue reading What I Read: May 2024
What I Read: February 2024
Read: The End of the World is a Cul de Sac - Louise Kennedy (Riverhead Books, 2023) (289 pages) Antarctica - Claire Keegan (Grove Press, 1999) (201 pages) The Flanders Road - Claude Simon (New York Review Books, 2022) (translated from the French by Richard Howard) (193 pages) The Secret Adversary - Agatha Chrsitie (Blackstone… Continue reading What I Read: February 2024
What I Read: January 2024
Read: Monsters - Claire Dederer (Alfred A. Knopf, 2023) (273 pages) What You are Looking for is in the Library - Michiko Aoyama (Harlequin Audio, 2023) (translated from the Japanese by Alison Watts) (8 hours, 22 minutes/304 pages) The Last Days of the Midnight Ramblers - Sarah Tomlinson (Flatiron Books) (304 pages) Lincoln in the… Continue reading What I Read: January 2024
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