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)
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What I Read – September 2025
Read: The Hand that First Held Mine - Maggie O'Farrell (Headline, 2010) The Golden Age - Kenneth Grahame (Dover Publications, 2005) The Accidental Favourite - Fran Littlewood (MacMillan Audio, 2025) (narrated by Fiona Button) Divisadero - Michael Ondaatje (McClelland & Stewart, 2007) Heart the Lover - Lily King (Harper Collins Publishers, 2025) (narrated by Rebecca… Continue reading What I Read – September 2025
(Audio) Book Review: Heart the Lover by Lily King
Heart the Lover - Lily King (Harper Collins Publishers, 2025) I received an Advance Listening Copy of this book thanks to the publisher and Libro.fm. All opinions are my own. This was the 100th book I finished in 2025 and it's a delightful serendipity that it was both a book I was looking forward to… Continue reading (Audio) Book Review: Heart the Lover by Lily King
What I Read: January 2025
Read: One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This - Omar El Akkad (McClelland & Stewart, 2025) Writers & Lovers - Lily King (Harper Collins Publishers Ltd, 2020) Your House Will Pay - Steph Cha (Ecco, 2019) Lucy - Jamaica Kincaid (Plume, 191) The Gulag Archipelago, Vol 1 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Harper Collins Audio,… Continue reading What I Read: January 2025
Book Review: Writers & Lovers by Lily King
Casey is in her early 30s, living in a converted garage, struggling to write a novel. Her mother has recently died and she's found herself devastated in the wake of a whirlwind romance. Waitressing pays her bills and while she's watched so many of her artist friends fade into suburban life, Casey holds on to… Continue reading Book Review: Writers & Lovers by Lily King
What I Read – June 2022
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
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