Seascraper - Benjamin Wood (Simon & Schuster Audio, 2025) I received an Advance Listening copy of this book thanks to the publisher and Libro.FM. All opinions are my own. I began listening to Seascraper just before the winter holiday and so even though it is a short novel - just over five hours listening time… Continue reading (Audio) Book Review: Seascraper by Benjamin Wood
Hello and welcome back! The vast majority of the reading that I do is fiction. This is a hard category for me to narrow down because it's the closest I'll get to picking a favourite book of the year. But the year is long and the reading is varied and how do you choose? I… Continue reading The 2025 Karissa Reads Books Literary Awards (Best Fiction)
Hello and welcome back! Today's category is a stacked one. Non-Fiction is a pretty broad category and encompasses biographies, histories, essay collections, and works of theology. I don't read as much non-fiction as I do fiction but I read some truly excellent non-fiction in 2025. The runners-up (in order that I read them) are: One… Continue reading The 2025 Karissa Reads Books Literary Awards (Best Non-Fiction)
Hello and welcome back! Today's category is Best Translation. Since I'm not able to read all of these books in their original language, I'm unable to actually speak to how accurate the translation into English is. Instead, when I say "best translation" what I mean is the best work I read that was translated into… Continue reading The 2025 Karissa Reads Books Literary Awards (Best Translation)
I listened to an Advance Listening Copy of this book thanks to Libro.fm and the publisher. All opinions are my own. This robot-focused novella is a little out of my normal book choices but the cover was appealing, it was a short listen, and it was available to me through Libro.fm so I thought I'd… Continue reading Book Review: Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz
Read: What Your ADHD Child Wishes You Knew - Sharone Saline (Tarcher Perigree, 2018) Song of the Sun God - Shankar Chandran (narrated by Shabana Azeez) How About Now - Kate Baer (Harper Perennial, 2025) Palace Walk - Naguib Mahfouz (Anchor Books, 1991) (translated from Arabic by Olive E. Kenny & William Maynard Hutchins) Like… Continue reading What I Read – November 2025
Like Family - Erin O. White (Dial Press, 2025) I received an Advance Reader's Copy of this book thanks to the publisher. All opinions are my own. After hearing some positive early reviews of Like Family, I realized I had an ARC at home and so picked it up to read over a weekend. I… Continue reading Book Review: Like Family by Erin O. White
I should probably start off by explaining why I read this book. Neither of my children have ADHD. Neither has a diagnosis, nor have I ever suspected that either one should. In fact, reading this book, I was more sure than ever that my children do not have ADHD. That said, humans are unique. Kids… Continue reading Book Review: What Your ADHD Child Wishes You Knew by Sharon Saline
Point Form Book Reviews are my way of reviewing books that I don’t necessarily have a lot to say about but still want to share a little on. So here are my thoughts on Consider Yourself Kissed: Coralie is an Australian immigrant to London. Ok, that's an interesting premise Something Happened to cause her sudden departure… Continue reading (Point Form) Book Review: Consider Yourself Kissed by Jessica Stanley
I'm a total name nerd so this book immediately appealed to me when I heard the premise. My girls love hearing what their "almost names" were (Eleanor and Violet) or what they might have been called if they were boys (Hartley and Freddie). When I hear about a new baby being born, I want to… Continue reading Book Review: The Names by Florence Knapp
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