Read: Man or Mango? - Lucy Ellmann (Biblioasis, 2022) Seascraper - Benjamin Wood (Simon & Schuster Audio, 2025) Demon Copperhead - Barbara Kingsolver (Harper, 2022) Beautyland - Marie-Helene Bertino (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2024) I Hold a Wolf by the Ears - Laura van den Berg (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2020) The Man Born to… Continue reading What I Read – January 2026
Fiction being what I read the most of, I always feel like the Best Fiction category is the best reflection of my favourite books of the year and I would say this year is no exception. So far this year I've read 62 novels. I narrowed the least down to sixteen, then down to five,… Continue reading Best Fiction – The Third Annual Karissa Reads Books Literary Awards
Read: No More Nice Girls - Lauren McKeon (Anansi, 2020) The Regrets - Amy Bonnaffons (Little, Brown and Company, 2020) Ducks, Newburyport - Lucy Ellmann (Biblioasis, 2019) Apeirogon - Colum McCann (Harper Collins, 2020) If I Had Your Face - Frances Cha (Ballantine Books, 2020) We Two Alone - Jack Wang (Astoria, 2020) Currently Reading:… Continue reading What I Read – March 2020
When I first saw Ducks, Newburyport on the shelf at the bookstore and when I first read about it, I thought, "Well, there's a book I'll never read." The story clocks in at 988 pages. It's a stream-of-consciousness novel, told mostly in one rambling sentence. The parts that aren't this stream-of-conscious are told from the… Continue reading Book Review: Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann
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