Category: Fiction

  Do I need to say it? You already know. I’m not a big romance reader. I like to try the genre every once in a while though, particularly when I hear about a particular book over and over, and it’s mostly positive feedback. This book definitely fit that, and on top of that it’s READ MORE

  There has been so much talk of this book series in the online book world for years. Everyone who has read it has loved it, particularly those who read a lot of books from the LGBTQIAP+ community. It’s the story of a Canadian called Mike who shows up on Yaichi’s doorstep in Tokyo and READ MORE

  I’m very into gardening at the moment, thanks to having just moved to a house that has a garden – the first time I’ve had proper earth space to plant in nearly two decades, and the first time I’ve had any sun to grow in. I’ve been looking for good books that centre gardening, READ MORE

  This was a bit of an odd one. I didn’t know anything going in, which can be either a really good thing at times, and I’ve discovered some great surprises that way. This one, though… it just managed to not be at all what I expected while also having had no expectations at all. READ MORE

  I loved The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry. I read it when it first came out, and it stuck with me. I’ve now recently re-read it and loved it almost as much, and I’ve even watched the film (twice) and found that mostly successful. And yet, I hadn’t read any of Zevin’s other books. READ MORE

  These days it’s fairly uncommon for me to pick up a YA book. I used to read a ton of them, but lately I’ve been gravitating more towards adult fiction, genre, or non-fiction. With the occasional graphic novel or memoir thrown in. But this has been sitting on my shelves for literally years, and READ MORE

  I went into this with no small amount of hesitancy, but also no expectations or idea what it was about. I decided to read it because I felt like I’d been seeing it everywhere, heard a few people say they enjoyed it, and was curious. Plus it was available at my library. The hesitancy READ MORE

  I have to be honest – the first thing that attracted me to this book was the cover. I loved the shades of blue, the texture, the font of the text. And the title – that was good too. I decided to give it ago because I was at a loose end, reading-wise, and READ MORE

  As you may have guessed, this is the second book in the Scottish Bookshop series that began with The Bookshop on the Corner, which I read right before this one. I enjoyed it enough that I wanted to see where it would go next. This is technically a sequel, and does take place in READ MORE

  I read this a few years (okay, decades) ago, and I remembered loving it and being deeply affected by it… but that’s about it. I’ve been meaning to re-read it for years now, pretty much since Go Set a Watchman came out back in 2015. I recently read a book called The Reading List, READ MORE

  I enjoy a good thriller. I like intrigue, twists, surprises, clever narrators and anything that’s unexpected. And boy, did this book ever deliver. On all counts. I didn’t expect that much from this book going in – I’d heard good things, but nothing that hinted at it being a huge departure from any other READ MORE

  I read this book for a book club hosted by Allison Paiges on Patreon. But I had already heard of it, because she had raved about it at great length earlier in the year, saying it was one of her all time favourite books (she had even gotten a tattoo of the wolf girl READ MORE

  I committed the cardinal readers’ sin with this one – I watched the show before reading the book. I love Toni Collette, and I thought she did such a fantastic job that I wanted more, which is when I searched out the book from my library and devoured it. This story starts dramatically with READ MORE

  I’ve been hearing Emily Henry’s name all over the internet for a while now. I don’t normally go for romance novels, as any of you who have been around here for a while know, but every once in a while I decide to dip a toe in. Normally it gets nibbled by a hungry READ MORE

  If you haven’t read this book, what would you expect it to be about? If you have read it, what were you looking for when you picked it up? Based on the title, I thought it would be about a group of perhaps ladylike Southern women who have a book club where they drink READ MORE

  Now that I’ve started the Renée Ballard series, it feels easy to continue. This is the second book in the series, and also crosses over into the Harry Bosch series as well. In this one, though, Bosch actually appears. One highlight is that Titus Welliver – the actor who plays Bosch – narrates the READ MORE

  I love simple stories about normal people doing normal things that somehow capture an essential element of what it means to be human. Books like this. This is such a quiet book about a quiet man called Ove just trying to be left alone. Ove is an older gentleman. He has recently lost his READ MORE

  I don’t know how, but somehow I managed to pick up several graphic novels (after not having read any for years) that were just so impressive, poignant and important. This was, obviously, one of those books. This is the graphic novel version of a novel by the same name written by Jason Reynolds. It’s READ MORE