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
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
I received an Advance Listening Copy of this book thanks to the publisher and Libro.fm. All opinions are my own. David A. Robertson is a prolific Indigenous-Canadian author who has written picture books, middle-grade stories, graphic novels, and two memoirs. He'll be one of the featured writers at our local Writers Fest this August, in… Continue reading (Audio) Book Review: 52 Ways to Reconcile by David A. Robertson
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
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This - Omar El Akkad (McClelland & Stewart, 2025) I received an Advance Reader's Copy of this book. All opinions are my own. Pub date: February 25, 2025 No, there is no terrible thing coming for you in some distant future, but know that a terrible thing… Continue reading Book Review: One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad
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
Read: Doppelganger - Naomi Klein (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2023) Kingdom, Grace, Judgement - Robert Farrar Capon (Eerdmans, 2002) Held - Anne Michaels (McClelland & Stewart, 2023) Last Woman - Carleigh Baker (McClelland & Stewart, 2024) The Book of Goose - Yiyun Li (Macmillan Audio, 2022) Present Over Perfect - Shauna Niequist (Zondervan, 2016) The… Continue reading What I Read: May 2024
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
Read: Life and Holiness - Thomas Merton (Herder and Herder, 1963) Stone Blind - Natalie Haynes (Harper, 2022) Picnic at Hanging Rock - Joan Lindsay (Penguin Books, 2017) Cousins - Aurora Venturini (translated from the Spanish by Kit Maude) (Soft Skull Press, 2023) When Women Were Dragons - Kelly Barnhill (Random House Audio, 2022) Life… Continue reading What I Read – May 2023
Hello and Welcome Back to the final installment of the Fifth Annual Karissa Reads Books Literary Awards! Undoubtedly, most of what I read is fiction so this final category is the Big One. I have my top 5 below but some other titles I greatly enjoyed reading in the past year are (in no particular… Continue reading Best Fiction: The Fifth Annual Karissa Reads Books Literary Awards
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