Hello and welcome back! This is our final category in these prestigious literary awards and the one I personally find the hardest. Fiction by far dominates my reading each year and I think I read a fairly wide variety of fiction which also makes it hard to choose my favourites. This year I've narrowed it… Continue reading The Annual Karissa Reads Books Literary Awards: Best Fiction
Tag: Yangsze Choo
What I Read: August 2024
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
Book Review: The Fox Wife by Yangsze Choo
The Fox Wife - Yangsze Choo (Henry Holt & Company, 2024) It's so nice when you pick up a book expecting to enjoy it and it lives up to all of your expectations. I was very hopeful for The Fox Wife as it had a lot that gave it points in my mind: 1) Historical… Continue reading Book Review: The Fox Wife by Yangsze Choo
What I Read: July 2024
Read: God in the Dock - C.S. Lewis (Collins, 1979) The Whalebone Theatre - Joanna Quinn (Alfred A. Knopf, 2022) The Little Friend - Donna Tartt (Alfred A. Knopf, 2022) Grief is the Thing with Feathers - Max Porter (Graywolf Press, 2014) The Capital of Dreams - Heather O'Neill Did Not Finish: Santa Evita -… Continue reading What I Read: July 2024
Best Fiction Book
Despite my sporadic posting, two more categories remain in The Second Annual Karissa Reads Books Literary Awards. Today we focus on the Best Fiction Book read in 2019. This is a big category because fiction makes up the largest chunk of what I read. I started out with a list of 15 books and have… Continue reading Best Fiction Book
What I Read – April 2019
Read: The Lesser Bohemians - Eimear McBride (McClelland & Stewart, 2016) The Night Tiger - Yangsze Choo (Flatiron Books, 2019) Ordinary People - Diana Evans (Bond Street Books, 2018) The Incendiaries - R.O. Kwon (Riverhead Books, 2018) Leaving the Witness - Amber Scorah (Viking, 2019) The Woo Woo - Lindsay Wong (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2018)… Continue reading What I Read – April 2019
Book Review: The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo
The Night Tiger - Yangsze Choo (Flatiron Books, 2019) The Night Tiger first come on my radar when I read FictionFan's review of it (read it here). Right away I knew it sounded like a book I'd enjoy. A bit of Chinese/South Asian history, a bit of magic realism. I'm happy to say the book… Continue reading Book Review: The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo
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