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May 4, 2025May 3, 2025 stargazer

Why I didn’t get on with Wuthering Heights

March 16, 2025March 15, 2025 stargazer

Book Review: Orbital by Samantha Harvey

February 2, 2025February 4, 2025 stargazer

The Color Purple: Summary, Themes & Review

January 12, 2025January 12, 2025 stargazer

The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey: Summary, Review and Analysis

June 9, 2024June 8, 2024 stargazer

Reading from the Women’s Prize 2024 longlist

June 2, 2024June 1, 2024 stargazer

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

May 12, 2024May 11, 2024 stargazer

Sunday Musings: Five Star Expectations – Blessing or Curse?

April 14, 2024April 13, 2024 stargazer

What I learned from Lord of the Flies

March 24, 2024March 27, 2024 stargazer

Reading Ireland: Old God’s Time & Kala

January 28, 2024January 27, 2024 stargazer

Reading Around the World: Take-off (South Korea and North Korea)

January 21, 2024February 7, 2024 stargazer

Why The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is worth reading

January 7, 2024January 20, 2024 stargazer

New York Novellas: Passing & Breakfast at Tiffany’s

November 5, 2023November 5, 2023 stargazer

Novellas in November: My Year in Novellas

October 29, 2023December 15, 2023 stargazer

Halloween Reading: The Woman in Black, Coraline, Carmilla

August 20, 2023August 20, 2023 stargazer

Book Review: Summer by Ali Smith

August 6, 2023August 5, 2023 stargazer

Howards End by E. M. Forster

May 7, 2023May 9, 2023 stargazer

Reading from the Women’s Prize 2023 longlist

March 30, 2023April 14, 2024 stargazer

What I learned from Great Expectations

March 5, 2023March 5, 2023 stargazer

Book Review: Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley

Our Wives Under the Sea cover
February 26, 2023February 24, 2023 stargazer

Book Review: Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield

February 19, 2023February 18, 2023 stargazer

Character-driven Crime Fiction – did I find any new favourites?

February 12, 2023October 21, 2023 stargazer

Atonement by Ian McEwan – Review, Analysis and The Sense of an Ending

The Bell Jar, book review
January 22, 2023January 22, 2023 stargazer

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath – Themes and Motifs

January 15, 2023January 14, 2023 stargazer

Book Review: The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka

December 11, 2022March 25, 2023 stargazer

The Literary Duel, Christmas Special: Scrooge vs. Christmas

November 10, 2022December 12, 2022 stargazer

Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy – when life knocks you down

October 3, 2022January 6, 2023 stargazer

Slaughterhouse-Five: The Meaninglessness of War and the Block Universe

August 14, 2022August 13, 2022 stargazer

Rereading the Classics: Gatsby, Heidi, Triffids

April 26, 2022April 25, 2022 stargazer

Spring Reading – April is the Cruelest Month?

April 10, 2022April 10, 2022 stargazer

Crying in H Mart & Ghost Forest – grief, family, identity

March 20, 2022April 22, 2022 stargazer

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf – sometimes you have to work for it

February 20, 2022February 20, 2022 stargazer

Kindred by Octavia Butler: Unique, Unputdownable, Uneven

January 30, 2022March 30, 2022 stargazer

Book Review: Winter by Ali Smith

January 23, 2022January 23, 2022 stargazer

Literary Locations: Kyrgyzstan

January 16, 2022January 21, 2022 stargazer

In Search of Character-driven Crime Fiction

January 9, 2022April 14, 2024 stargazer

What I learned from Frankenstein

October 14, 2021October 13, 2021 stargazer

Book Review: Autumn by Ali Smith

September 26, 2021August 17, 2024 stargazer

A Room With a View by E. M. Forster

September 12, 2021September 12, 2021 stargazer

Book Review: The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes

August 22, 2021August 22, 2021 stargazer

Book Review: The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne

August 15, 2021August 15, 2021 stargazer

Book Review: The Lost Man by Jane Harper

July 25, 2021January 27, 2024 stargazer

Book Review: Assembly by Natasha Brown

June 27, 2021June 27, 2021 stargazer

Book Review: Summerwater by Sarah Moss

June 6, 2021June 12, 2021 stargazer

Book Review: Crime and Punishment

Book by Olga Ravn
May 31, 2021January 19, 2024 stargazer

When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut – Rant Review Alert!

Book by Olga Ravn
May 28, 2021May 31, 2021 stargazer

The Employees by Olga Ravn – Rave Review Alert!

May 16, 2021January 29, 2024 stargazer

Book Review: The End of the Affair by Graham Greene

May 9, 2021January 31, 2024 stargazer

Book Review: I Am, I Am, I Am by Maggie O’Farrell

April 25, 2021April 25, 2021 stargazer

Book Review: Unsettled Ground

April 11, 2021April 12, 2021 stargazer

Book Review: Piranesi

March 28, 2021January 13, 2024 stargazer

Book Review: The Doll Factory

March 21, 2021March 21, 2021 stargazer

Book Review: Klara and the Sun

February 28, 2021February 21, 2024 stargazer

Book Review: The Picture of Dorian Gray

February 14, 2021February 19, 2021 stargazer

Such a Fun Age – Not Much Fun

February 7, 2021February 19, 2024 stargazer

Book Review: Love and Other Thought Experiments

January 24, 2021October 28, 2024 stargazer

Why The Birds by Daphne du Maurier is still relevant today

January 17, 2021May 16, 2021 stargazer

Literary Locations: Bear Edition

January 7, 2021January 7, 2021 stargazer

Book Review: Transcendent Kingdom

December 7, 2020December 7, 2020 stargazer

Winter Reviews: The Darkest Evening and The Ice Palace

November 29, 2020May 16, 2021 stargazer

Book Review: The Housekeeper and the Professor

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