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
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THE SUNDAY REVIEW | DARK SACRED NIGHT – MICHAEL CONNELLY
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
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | A MAN CALLED OVE – FREDRIK BACKMAN
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
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | LONG WAY DOWN – JASON REYNOLDS & DANICA NOVGORODOFF
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
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW – A.J. FINN
Have you ever heard so much about a book, for so long, seen it get turned into a movie, and then finally gotten around to reading it and had your main reaction to be, “…..huh?” Of course you have. You’re all book people here. So yeah, that was my experience with this book. I READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | BOMBS ON AUNT DAINTY – JUDITH KERR
The second book in the Out of the Hitler Time series, this book jumps forward in time from where When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit left off. In this book the family are now living in a boarding house in London during the early days of the Blitz. Things are tough – not just because READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | BORDERS – THOMAS KING & NATASHA DONOVAN
I adored this book. It was one of my top reads of last year, and also one of my favourite graphic novels (probably either #1 or #2). This is the story of a young boy and his mother who are Blackfoot and live on a reservation in what we think of as Canada. Our READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS – M.L. STEADMAN
If you are the type of reader who can withstand tragedy and pain as long as it’s presented in beautiful prose and has characters whose pain you will feel acutely, then this is the book for you. Because man, does it ever serve up the tragedy with both hands. The story begins with Tom, READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | THE APPEAL – JANICE HALLETT
I picked this book up because I watched one of Lauren and the Books‘ videos (I’d link the actual video but it was months ago when I watched it and I don’t remember which one) in which her partner, David, reads this whole book in a weekend, and he doesn’t normally read that much. READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | THE LATE SHOW – MICHAEL CONNELLY
When it comes to police procedural thrillers, Michael Connelly pretty much has the genre on lock. Thanks to his wildly successful Harry Bosch series (which was made into a TV series starring Titus Welliver), and fast pace at which he releases new books, his fans are often devoted ones. First published in 2017, The READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | THE CURIOUS CHARMS OF ARTHUR PEPPER – PHAEDRA PATRICK
This book was a big surprise to me. It turned out to be exactly what I wished The Extra Ordinary Life of Frank Derrick, Aged 81 would be. Also what I hoped The Unlikely Pilgrimmage of Harold Fry would feel like. It’s a simple story at the outset – it’s the story of Arthur READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | HEARTSTOPPER VOLUMES 1 & 2 – ALICE OSEMAN
Like many of you, I picked up the first book in the Heartstopper series, read it straight through in one sitting, and immediately picked up volume 2. So the two are inextricably linked in my mind, and I can’t remember which held what part of the story to review them separately. (I READ MORE
BOOK REVIEW | THE MYTH OF NORMAL – GABOR MATÉ AND DANIEL MATÉ
It took me a while to read this book, and it’s not because it was long (I mean, it’s not short, but it’s also not that long). It was because it is so impactful. This book looks at both physical and mental illnesses, the root causes of both, and the connections between the two. READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | CRYING IN H MART – MICHELLE ZAUNER
You’ve probably seen this book around. I think it’s one of the (if not the) most talked about memoirs of the past year. It’s the story of a mother and a daughter – a mother who has been an indomitable presence in her daughter’s life since she was born, and who has never been READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | RAZORBLADE TEARS – S.A. COSBY
I’ve seen this book around a lot, and was intrigued by the premise. This is the story of two fathers. One white, one Black. Each has lost a son to violence, and they are connected by their sons, who were married to one another. Both fathers did not react well to their sons’ homosexuality READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | THE END OF YOUR LIFE BOOK CLUB – WILL SCHWALBE
I feel like this book has been kicking around on the periphery of my reading since it first came out about a decade ago. I’ve always been a bit interested in it, but also a bit nervous about the “end of your life” part. It popped up in my library catalogue though, and I READ MORE
BOOK REVIEW | I WANT TO DIE BUT I WANT TO EAT TTEOKBOKKI – BAEK SE-HEE
I was fascinated by this book when I first found out about it. It’s a simple concept – a young woman who is suffering from a non-specific, pervasive malaise seeks help from a therapist and records her sessions. She starts off uncertain about many things – why she feels how she does, how others READ MORE
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | THE BOOKSHOP ON THE CORNER – JENNY COLGAN
I have had this book on my shelf for so long now that I can’t even remember getting it! I kept meaning to pick it up… and then just not. But I was in the mood for something a bit light this week, and I saw this, and it seemed like the way to READ MORE