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 Sea - John Banville (Vintage International, 2005) The Weekend - Charlotte Wood (Riverhead Books, 2019) The Riches of Your Grace - Julie Lane-Gay (InterVarsity Press, 2024) Universality - Natasha Brown (Knopf Canada, 2025) (narrated by Norma Butikofer, Anushka Chakravarti, Clare Corbett, Daniel Weyman) Why I Write - George Orwell (Penguin Books, 2005) Anne… Continue reading What I Read: July 2025
Read: The Fox Wife - Yangsze Choo (Henry Holt & Company, 2024) A Room of One's Own - Virginia Woolf (Penguin Modern Classics, 1975) In the Woods - Tana French (Penguin Books, 2017) The Likeness - Tana French ( Penguin Books, 2017) The Coast Road - Alan Murrin (Harper Via, 2024) Lifelines - Heidi Diehl… Continue reading What I Read: August 2024
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
Read: My Soul Twin - Nino Haratischvili (translated from German by Charlotte Collins) (Scribe, 2022) The Glass Blowers - Daphne du Maurier (The Reprint Society, 1964) Weather - Jenny Offill (Random House, 2020) Romantic Comedy - Curtis Sittenfeld (Books on Tape, 2023) The Imposters - Tom Rachman (Bond Street Books, 2023) Soucouyant - David Chariandy… Continue reading What I Read – September 2023
Read: I am Homeless if This is Not My Home - Lorrie Moore (Bond Street Books, 2023) The Whole Animal - Corinna Chong (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2023) The Parables of Grace - Robert Farrar Capon (Wiliam B. Eerdman's Publishing Company, 1990) Bad Cree - Jessica Johns (Harper Collins, 2023) Travels with my Aunt - Graham… Continue reading What I Read – July 2023
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
I think I went about reading this book in the wrong way. A group of young ladies from a posh boarding school in Australia, two of their teachers, and a driver, spend St. Valentine's Day having a picnic at a place called Hanging Rock. Before they prepare to leave, four of the girls receive permission… Continue reading Book Review: Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay
We Should Not Be Afraid of the Sky - Emma Hooper (Penguin, 2022) A wealthy woman gives birth to 9 identical baby girls. Horrified by the act of giving birth to essentially a litter, she tells her servant woman to take the infants to the river. While two of the babies have died already, the… Continue reading Book Review: We Should Not Be Afraid of the Sky by Emma Hooper
Read: Brutes - Dizz Tate (Catapult, 2023) A Woman is No Man - Etaf Rum (Harper Audio, 2019) Small Things Like These - Claire Keegan (Grove Press, 2021) Abyss - Pilar Quintana (World Editions, 2023) (translated from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman) Stardust - Neil Gaiman (Harper Audio) Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier (BBC Audio,… Continue reading What I Read – February 2023
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