Happy (almost) New Year! I did not mean to disappear on here for much of December but I am alive and well and enjoying some much needed time off with my family. At the end of November, my boss passed away very suddenly and I was thrown into a lot more responsibility at work, all… Continue reading What I Read: 2023
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What I Read – November 2023
Read: Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston (Harper Audio, 2005) Bangkok Wakes to Rain - Pitchaya Sudbanthad (Riverhead Books, 2019) Girlfriend on Mars - Deborah Willis (Hamish Hamilton, 2023) Stubborn Archivist - Yara Rodrigues Fowler (Mariner Books, 2019) The Wild Heavens - Sarah Louise Butler (Douglas & McIntyre, 2020) Daughter - Claudia… Continue reading What I Read – November 2023
What I Read – September 2023
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
What I Read – August 2023
Read: Eagle & Crane - Suzanne Rindell (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2018) Tom Lake - Ann Patchett (Harper Collins, 2023) The Tiger's Wife - Tea Obreht (Random House, 2011) Night Theater - Vikram Paralkar (Catapult, 2020) Bottled Goods - Sophie van Llewyn (Harper Perennial, 2020) Did Not Finish: Cursed Bread - Sophie Mackintosh Sun House -… Continue reading What I Read – August 2023
What I Read – July 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
What I Read – June 2023
Read: The Night Ship - Jess Kidd The Garden Party & Other Stories - Katherine Mansfield (Century Hutchinson, 1988) Let us be True - Erna Buffie (Coteau Books, 2015) The Sleeping Car Porter - Suzette Mayr (Coach House Books, 2022) She Who Became the Sun - Shelly Parker-Chan (MacMillan Audio, 2021) The Friend - Sigrid… Continue reading What I Read – June 2023
Summer Reading Plan: 15 Books of Summer
For the second year, I'm participating in the 20 Books of Summer - the most relaxed reading challenge there may be. Run by Cathy at 746 Books, you pick what you want to read over the months of June, July, and August and share them. Both the titles and numbers are entirely flexible which adds… Continue reading Summer Reading Plan: 15 Books of Summer
What I Read – May 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
What I Read – April 2023
Read: Two-Part Invention - Madeleine L'Engle (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1988) Notes from Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky (Vintage Classics, 1994) (translated from Russian by Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky) Instructions for the Drowning - Steven Heighton (Biblioasis, 2023) The Memory of Animals - Claire Fuller (Tin House, 2023) Shrines of Gaiety - Kate Atkinson (Little,… Continue reading What I Read – April 2023
What I Read – February 2023
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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