Most of the time when I'm reading a book, I don't like to read a lot of other reviews. At least not until I write my own. Don't get me wrong, I like reading book reviews (obviously) and I love chatting books with other readers, but most of the time I like the chance to… Continue reading Book Review: The Cocktail Party by T.S. Eliot
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Book Review: Of Love and Other Demons by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Translated from Spanish to English by Edith Grossman What does it mean that my thrifted copy of Of Love and Other Demons had a photograph of a dog tucked into it? The photo has a white border and features a semi-rotund husky type dog in the centre, its eyes glowing in the flash of the… Continue reading Book Review: Of Love and Other Demons by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
(Kind of a) Book Review: I’m a Fan by Sheena Patel
I received an advance e-copy of this book thanks to the publisher and NetGalley. All opinions are my own. DNFed at 51%. This wasn't unreadable but it was boring. I read as far as I did, hoping that more would happen but it didn't and I finally admitted to myself that I wasn't enjoying the… Continue reading (Kind of a) Book Review: I’m a Fan by Sheena Patel
Book Review: Bottled Goods by Sophie van Llewyn
Alina is a young woman, a teacher, in the 1970s, living in the Socialist Republic of Romania, under a restrictive Communist regime. She and her husband, Liviu are generally happy and in love but when Liviu's brother defects, both of them fall under suspicion and her increasingly threatened with surveillance and interrogation. As the stress… Continue reading Book Review: Bottled Goods by Sophie van Llewyn
Book Review: I Am Homeless if This is Not My Home by Lorrie Moore
I received an advanced e-copy of this book thanks to the publisher and to NetGalley. All opinions are my own. This is such a weird book. I often like weird in my books and I'm often okay with a meandering, non-linear plot but I'm not sure who the audience is for a book like this.… Continue reading Book Review: I Am Homeless if This is Not My Home by Lorrie Moore
(Point Form) Book Review: The Sleeping Car Porter by Suzette Mayr
Point Form Book Reviews are my way of catching up on book reviews where maybe too much time has passed or I don't have a whole lot to say about a book but still want to share some thoughts. I actually don't have a lot of thoughts about this book. It wont the Giller Prize… Continue reading (Point Form) Book Review: The Sleeping Car Porter by Suzette Mayr
(Audio) Book Review: A Good Neighborhood by Therese Anne Fowler
The good neighbourhood (I'm sorry, I will spell the title the way the book spells it but otherwise I'm going to spell it right!) of this novel is Oak Knolls, a quiet, middle class suburban area of North Carolina where the neighbours know each other and many have lived side by side for years. Valerie… Continue reading (Audio) Book Review: A Good Neighborhood by Therese Anne Fowler
Book Review: The Mythmakers by Keziah Weir
I read an Advance Readers Copy of this book. All opinions are my own. On sale now. Sal's life is not going great. Her relationships has probably ended. The magazine article she took a big risk on writing and was hoping would catapult her career forward has failed spectacularly. So it isn't all that surprising… Continue reading Book Review: The Mythmakers by Keziah Weir
(Audio) Book Review: The Friend by Sigrid Nunez
This weird little novel is a letter of sorts to friendship, grief, and dogs. The narrator is an unnamed woman (most of the characters are unnamed, except the dog) who has recently lost her longtime friend and mentor to suicide. They were both writers, him perhaps the more successful, or at the least the more… Continue reading (Audio) Book Review: The Friend by Sigrid Nunez
Book Review: Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
Yellowface is a messy woman/disaster story in the best possible way. It's the sort of book that will have you inwardly yelling at the protagonist about her bad choices but you don't want to stop reading because you just have to find out how it all ends. June Hayward is an author of small success.… Continue reading Book Review: Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
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