The Annual Karissa Reads Books Literary Awards: Best Fiction

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

What I Read: July 2024

Read: God in the Dock - C.S. Lewis (Collins, 1979) The Whalebone Theatre - Joanna Quinn (Alfred A. Knopf, 2022) The Little Friend - Donna Tartt (Alfred A. Knopf, 2022) Grief is the Thing with Feathers - Max Porter (Graywolf Press, 2014) The Capital of Dreams - Heather O'Neill Did Not Finish: Santa Evita -… Continue reading What I Read: July 2024

Book Review: The Whalebone Theatre by Joanna Quinn

The Whalebone Theatre - Joanna Quinn (Alfred A. Knopf, 2022) In parts, this felt like two stories joined together. There is the story of three semi-feral children, related to each other in complicated ways, growing up in a crumbling English estate in the last days when such places existed. Then there is the story of… Continue reading Book Review: The Whalebone Theatre by Joanna Quinn

What I Read: June 2024

Read: Our Crumbling Foundation - Gregor Craigie (Random House Canada, 2024) The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle - Stuart Turton (Tantor Media, 2018) Brotherless Night - V.V. Ganeshananthan (Random House, 2023) Clear - Carys Davies (Scribner, 2024) Introduction to First Nations Ministry - Cheryl Bear-Barnetson (Cherohala Press, 2013) Slow Dance - Rainbow Rowell (William… Continue reading What I Read: June 2024