Hello and welcome! I'm back with the (somewhat) Annual Karissa Reads Books Literary Awards! I've been doing this for a few years now (inspired by the incomparable FictionFan). My attempt at these awards petered out last year due to the craziness that was my life in December 2023 but this year I've started early and… Continue reading The Annual Karissa Reads Books Literary Awards: Best Non-Fiction
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What I Read: May 2024
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
What I Read: April 2024
Read: Unearthing - Kyo Maclear (Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2023) What Does the Bible Really Teach About Homosexuality? - Kevin DeYoung (Crossway, 2015) The Fire Still Burns - Sam George (Purich Books, 2023) The Matisse Stories - A.S. Byatt (Vintage, 1994) Hello Beautiful - Ann Napolitano (Books on Tape, 2023) The Leap Year Gene -… Continue reading What I Read: April 2024
What I Read: March 2024
Read: The Future - Catherine Leroux (Biblioasis, 2020) (translated from the French by Susan Ouriou) The Double Life of Benson Yu - Kevin Chong (Simon & Schuster Audio, 2023) Games & Rituals - Katherine Heiny (Penguin Audio, 2023) Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit - Nadine Sander-Green (Anansi, 2024) The Other Valley - Scott Alexander Howard (Scribner Canada,… Continue reading What I Read: March 2024
What I Read: February 2024
Read: The End of the World is a Cul de Sac - Louise Kennedy (Riverhead Books, 2023) (289 pages) Antarctica - Claire Keegan (Grove Press, 1999) (201 pages) The Flanders Road - Claude Simon (New York Review Books, 2022) (translated from the French by Richard Howard) (193 pages) The Secret Adversary - Agatha Chrsitie (Blackstone… Continue reading What I Read: February 2024
What I Read: January 2024
Read: Monsters - Claire Dederer (Alfred A. Knopf, 2023) (273 pages) What You are Looking for is in the Library - Michiko Aoyama (Harlequin Audio, 2023) (translated from the Japanese by Alison Watts) (8 hours, 22 minutes/304 pages) The Last Days of the Midnight Ramblers - Sarah Tomlinson (Flatiron Books) (304 pages) Lincoln in the… Continue reading What I Read: January 2024
Quotes of the Week (vol. 3) and Some Snow Day Pictures
Everything nonsense now. Those mourners came up. Hands extended. Sons intact. Wearing on their faces enforced sadness-masks to hide any sign of their happiness, which --went on. They could not hide how alive they yet were with it, with their happiness at the potential of their still-living sons. Until lately I was one of them.… Continue reading Quotes of the Week (vol. 3) and Some Snow Day Pictures
Quotes of the Week (vol. 2)
The apostles returned to Jesus, and told Him all that they had done and taught. And He said to them, "Come away by yourselves to a lonely place, and rest a while." For many were coming and going, and they had no leisure even to eat. And they went away on the boat to a… Continue reading Quotes of the Week (vol. 2)
Quotes of the Week
Here are a few passages that jumped out at me in my reading over the past week (ok, actually since January 1st): Blessed is the one who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers: but his delight is in the… Continue reading Quotes of the Week
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
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