The 2025 Karissa Reads Books Literary Awards (Best Non-Fiction)

Hello and welcome back! Today's category is a stacked one. Non-Fiction is a pretty broad category and encompasses biographies, histories, essay collections, and works of theology. I don't read as much non-fiction as I do fiction but I read some truly excellent non-fiction in 2025. The runners-up (in order that I read them) are: One… Continue reading The 2025 Karissa Reads Books Literary Awards (Best Non-Fiction)

What I Read: July 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

Book Review: Run Towards the Danger by Sarah Polley

I feel toward Sarah Polley the way I imagine I might feel if someone from my high school had gone on to be famous. Like a friend's older sister, or if we had grown up around the same time in the same small town. We didn't; I've never met Polley and I haven't even followed… Continue reading Book Review: Run Towards the Danger by Sarah Polley