Tag: Book Review
Nonfiction at its worst? The Salt Path Controversy
Sunday Post: Women’s Prize and Reading Catch-up
Book Review: On the Calculation of Volume I by Solvej Balle
Why I didn’t get on with Wuthering Heights
Book Review: Orbital by Samantha Harvey
Sunday Post: Traveling, Reading Nonfiction and Longing for Spring
The Color Purple: Summary, Themes & Review
The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey: Summary, Review and Analysis
Reading from the Women’s Prize 2024 longlist
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Sunday Musings: Five Star Expectations – Blessing or Curse?
What I learned from Lord of the Flies
Reading Ireland: Old God’s Time & Kala
Sunday Post: Reading Wrap-up and Reading Projects
Reading Around the World: Take-off (South Korea and North Korea)
Why The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is worth reading
New York Novellas: Passing & Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Novellas in November: My Year in Novellas
Halloween Reading: The Woman in Black, Coraline, Carmilla
Book Review: Summer by Ali Smith
Howards End by E. M. Forster
Reading from the Women’s Prize 2023 longlist
What I learned from Great Expectations
Book Review: Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley
Book Review: Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield
Character-driven Crime Fiction – did I find any new favourites?
Atonement by Ian McEwan – Review, Analysis and The Sense of an Ending
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath – Themes and Motifs
Book Review: The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka
The Literary Duel, Christmas Special: Scrooge vs. Christmas
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy – when life knocks you down
Slaughterhouse-Five: The Meaninglessness of War and the Block Universe
Rereading the Classics: Gatsby, Heidi, Triffids
Spring Reading – April is the Cruelest Month?
Crying in H Mart & Ghost Forest – grief, family, identity
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf – sometimes you have to work for it
Kindred by Octavia Butler: Unique, Unputdownable, Uneven
Book Review: Winter by Ali Smith
Literary Locations: Kyrgyzstan
In Search of Character-driven Crime Fiction
What I learned from Frankenstein
Book Review: Autumn by Ali Smith
A Room With a View by E. M. Forster
Book Review: The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
Book Review: The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne
Book Review: The Lost Man by Jane Harper
Book Review: Assembly by Natasha Brown
Book Review: Summerwater by Sarah Moss
Book Review: Crime and Punishment
When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut – Rant Review Alert!
The Employees by Olga Ravn – Rave Review Alert!
Book Review: The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
Book Review: I Am, I Am, I Am by Maggie O’Farrell
Book Review: Unsettled Ground
Book Review: Piranesi
Book Review: The Doll Factory
Book Review: Klara and the Sun
Book Review: The Picture of Dorian Gray