Read: Nightbitch - Rachel Yoder (Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2021) Good Dirt - Charmaine Wilkerson (Penguin Random House, 2025) (narrated by January LaVoy) Honeydew: Stories - Edith Pearlman (Little, Brown and Company, 2015) Tenth of December: Stories - George Saunders (Random House, 2023) The Wedding People - Alison Espach (Macmillan Audio, 2024) (narrated by Helen… Continue reading What I Read: June 2025
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
Despite my sporadic posting, two more categories remain in The Second Annual Karissa Reads Books Literary Awards. Today we focus on the Best Fiction Book read in 2019. This is a big category because fiction makes up the largest chunk of what I read. I started out with a list of 15 books and have… Continue reading Best Fiction Book
READ: Southern Lady Code - Helen Ellis (Doubleday, 2019) The Immortalists - Chloe Benjamin (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2018) Tin Man - Sarah Winman (Viking, 2017) The Waiting Hours - Shandi Mitchell (Viking, 2019) Lanny - Max Porter (Strange Light, 2019) A Room With a View - E.M. Forster (Penguin Books, 1978) American War - Omar… Continue reading What I Read – March 2019
Lanny - Max Porter (Strange Light, 2019) Where to start with a book like Lanny? Creepy. Mythical. Magical. Beautiful. Horrifying. Poetic. Tragic. True. All of these are words that come to mind as I think back to reading Max Porter's very weird, poetic novel. It's fantastical - one of the characters is a mythical, shape-shifting,… Continue reading Book Review: Lanny by Max Porter
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