I mean, let’s face it, if you’re on this blog reading this review, this book is going to be your cup of tea. It’s really that simple. After all, which one of us hasn’t dreamed about what it would be like to be a bookseller? To be surrounded by books all day, every day? READ MORE
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THE SUNDAY REVIEW | WE ARE NEVER MEETING IN REAL LIFE – SAMANTHA IRBY
So apparently I have been living under a rock, because I didn’t really know much about Samantha Irby. I’d heard of her books when they came out, and I had been vaguely interested (I think I have a copy of one of her other titles buried in a pile of books somewhere around here READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | MY MESS IS A BIT OF A LIFE – GEORGIA PRITCHETT
This was yet another random discovery I made while perusing audiobooks, and thought I might as well give it a go. I knew nothing going in. Not what the book was about (other than what’s on the cover), not who Georgia Pritchett is, not how the book would be structured. Nothing. But you know READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | EVERYTHING IS OK – DEBBIE TUNG
**Trigger Warning: This book and this review deal with and discuss mental health issues – depression in particular. If you are sensitive to or triggered by this topic, please take care of yourself and skip this review.** I discovered Debbie Tung last year when I was looking for graphic novels, and books that READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | DELILAH GREEN DOESN’T CARE – ASHLEY HERRING BLAKE
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
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | MY BROTHER’S HUSBAND (VOLUME 1) – GENGOROH TAGAME
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
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | BETTER LATE THAN NEVER – EMMA MAHONY
Learning later in life that you’ve had a uniquely functioning brain your entire life is not easy. It comes with a lot of conflicting emotions and a re-framing of past decisions, mistakes, and challenges. Emma Mahony has written a memoir that takes the reader through this journey of diagnosis and self-reflection as she is READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | TEN STEPS TO NANETTE – HANNAH GADSBY
If you don’t want to read the whole review, then I can give it to you in one sentence: I fucking love Hannah Gadsby, and I’m betting you will too. There, that’s all you really need to know. No? Want more? Okay, here it is. If you have yet to experience Hannah Gadsby, she’s READ MORE
BOOK REVIEW | AMAZING GRACE ADAMS – FRAN LITTLEWOOD
The blurb for this book grabbed my attention, because I really loved Ove. I read A Man Called Ove last year and it was one of my favourite books. I even liked the film. Eleanor Oliphant was less of a hit, but more because I took issue with some of the author’s decisions around READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | FUNNY FARM – LAURIE ZALESKI
This was yet another book I stumbled across while browsing audiobooks, and as I’m currently really interested in outdoor life (more gardening, but I’ll extend that to farming or homesteading or, in this case, animal rescue farms), this caught my attention. It was even further piqued when I read the subtitle – my reaction READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | PEOPLE I WANT TO PUNCH IN THE THROAT – JEN MANN
Yet another book that has been languishing on my shelve for literal years – this seems to be a theme lately! This one came to my attention when I was unpacking my books after a recent move. I was looking for something on the light side, that would make me feel any kind of READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | THAT WAS WHEN PEOPLE STARTED TO WORRY – NANCY TUCKER
I’ve had this on my shelf for years. I’ve started it a few times. After finishing Joanna Cannon’s brilliant book about mental illness, Will You Read This, Please? I wanted more. So I picked this up again. It was time to give it a proper go. Similar to Cannon’s book, this is a compilation READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | LONDON’S NUMBER ONE DOG-WALKING AGENCY – KATE MACDOUGALL
If you could start your own business, do anything you wanted to earn a living, what would it be? That’s the question that lingered as I read this book. Kate MacDougall did this, in a way. She left her job at Sotheby’s and decided to start a dog walking agency. She’d grown up with READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | WILL YOU READ THIS, PLEASE? – JOANNA CANNON
It’s difficult, sometimes, to find good first person accounts of what it is like to experience a mental illness. Some of those who have been there don’t want to talk about it; some can’t. Others simply can’t find the right words. Joanna Cannon (author of The Trouble with Goats and Sheep) came up with READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | GARDEN VARIETY – CHRISTY WILHELMI
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
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | UNRAVELING – PEGGY ORENSTEIN
I’ve always been around knitting. My mum knitted – she made me a sweater when I was a toddler that I still have to this day. And, as Peggy Orenstein says over and over in this book, SLFHM – she learned from her mum. My maternal grandmother was a wizard with the knitting needles. READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | IN FIVE YEARS – REBECCA SERLE
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
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW – GABRIELLE ZEVIN
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