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About the Book: An interpreter has come to The Hague to escape New York and work at the International Court. She’s drawn into simmering personal dramas. Her lover, Adriaan, is separated from his wife but still entangled in his marriage. Her friend Jana witnesses a seemingly random act of violence, a crime the interpreter becomes … Continue reading Book Review: Intimacies by Katie Kitamura| Theresa Smith Writes
Translated by Sophie Hughes About the Book: Shortlisted, International Booker Prize, United Kingdom, 2025 Longlisted, National Book Award for Translated Literature, United States, 2025 They have ev…| Theresa Smith Writes
You know what I need? A contemporary college story with disability and mental health rep.| Voice of Reason
I feel greedy. I have so many books, yet I want so many more.| Voice of Reason
When reality meets romance fiction, does the Happily Ever After hold up?| Voice of Reason
Whether sharing a theoretical philosophy or a deep yearning for seafood, life is better with friends in it.| Voice of Reason
I know what you're wondering, and yes, I read books during my Japan trip!| Voice of Reason
Seems like the perfect time to recap the year so far. Consider this a map of my reading journey, the highs and lows.| Voice of Reason
Lots of things in real-life are not like the movies. It's unrealistic to resolve emotional conflict in two hours, after all!| Voice of Reason
Travel Robyn is a different person. Surely, travel reading is different, too.| Voice of Reason
Hello Everyone! Today is day one of the BBNYA 2025 spotlight tours! Today I’m shining the spotlight on Worth It by Amy Nielsen. Thank you to the BBNYA team for putting the media kits together for the spotlight tours. Keep reading to find out if Worth It is a book you want to add to your TBR! You […] The post BBNYA Spotlight – Worth It by Amy Nielsen first appeared on Books Are 42.| Books Are 42
I really wanted to like this one. I’ve enjoyed Sherry Thomas’ romances, but this was the exact opposite of steamy. Neither the romances nor the mystery worked for me, though it might for others. Set in Austin, the book revolves around four people working in a library. Jonathan is a former football player who’s in…Read more →| The Book Stop
I know November is long gone, but things have been a little hectic lately! I’d originally thought I’d do a combined post on my favorite November AND December books, but turns out my December reading has been mostly backlist or 2024 books. When I finally sat down to do this post, I realized the four... The post Favorite Books of November 2023 appeared first on Novel Visits.| Novel Visits
It’s been a minute! Last time I posted was the end of June when I shared that month’s favorites. I fully intended to do the same with my July favorites, but things just got away from me. To be fair, I was in Tahoe at a long overdue family reunion from July 25th – 31st.... The post Favorite Books of Summer 2023 appeared first on Novel Visits.| Novel Visits
So sorry to have been absent for an April post. I’ve been traveling a lot and some of that spanned the end of April. Plus being on the go did not work for getting my usual reading numbers in, but it was worth it! The big trip to Greece and Turkey with my sister was... The post Favorite Books of April & May 2023 appeared first on Novel Visits.| Novel Visits
Thank goodness for spring and for light! Here in Washington we’ve had some sunshine, but it’s still pretty darn cold. Staying light into the evenings and getting lighter earlier and earlier are always welcome balms to my soul. March has been a busy month, so I’ve not read as many books as usual, but the... The post Favorite Books of March 2023 appeared first on Novel Visits.| Novel Visits
A new season means new books! My Spring Preview 2023 includes 20 upcoming releases, including 11 debuts and 5 by tried and true authors.| Novel Visits
About the Book: The bestselling, Booker shortlisted novel by one of Britain’s greatest living novelists. Set in New England mainly and London partly, On Beauty concerns a pair of feuding families – the Belseys and the Kipps – and a clutch of doomed affairs. It puts low morals among high ideals and asks some searching … Continue reading Book Review: On Beauty by Zadie Smith| Theresa Smith Writes
About the Book: Rarely have the foundations upon which our ideas of motherhood and womanhood rest been so candidly questioned. This compelling novel tells the story of one woman’s headlong descent …| Theresa Smith Writes
The time has come for our shortlist predictions. We’ve spent the last few months reading all the longlist books and rating the nominees. Keep reading to see which books topped our collective list and what panelists picked as their personal predictions. Each year the panel reviews books and scores them on the following categories: writing, […]| The Reader's Room
About the Book: A warm, tender and funny story about unlikely friendships, second chances, and the magic of soul music.**Selected as a book of 2024 by the Guardian, New Statesman and…| Theresa Smith Writes
About the Book: Mitchell is a brilliant biologist, committed to the environment and the growing global antinatalist movement. For one month each year he lives with his colleague Frances in a utopia…| Theresa Smith Writes
About the Book: Years ago, Sukie moved in with Nathan because her mother was dead and her father was difficult, and she had nowhere else to go. Now they are on the brink of the inevitable. Sally Ro…| Theresa Smith Writes
About the Book: It’s the early 1990s in Glasgow, and Stephen – music loving romantic – has emerged from a lengthy hospital stay diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome, a little-understood disease …| Theresa Smith Writes
Ingrid and her boyfriend Cory have been together for 11 years. When her sister gets engaged, they decide to take a break to date other people. What follows is a commentary on contemporary dating and the ruts younger millennials find themselves in, a friendship that has always felt like more, and the courage it takes…| Hooks, Books, & Wanderlust
About the Book: In the heart-aching new novel from the author of the award–winning Golden Child, a mother searches for the daughter she left behind a lifetime ago. Trinidad, 1980: Dawn Bishop, aged…| Theresa Smith Writes
Ingrid and her boyfriend Cory have been together for 11 years. When her sister gets engaged, they decide to take a break to date other people. What follows is a commentary on contemporary dating and the ruts younger millennials find themselves in, a friendship that has always felt like more, and the courage it takes…| Hooks, Books, & Wanderlust
In The Truth is in the Detours, Mara Williams writes a light romance with lovable characters and a life changing road trip.| Armed with A Book
About the Book: Two people meet for lunch in a Manhattan restaurant. She’s an accomplished actress in rehearsals for an upcoming premiere. He’s attractive, troubling, young – young enough to be her…| Theresa Smith Writes
The Long Prospect is Elizabeth Harrower’s second novel, published in 1958. It is set in a fictional town called Ballowra, which is loosely based on Newcastle. I didn’t get quite the sam…| Theresa Smith Writes
Twenty-two years ago, Claire Campbell’s older sister, Natalie, disappeared on her eighteenth birthday. Days later, her blood was found in a car, a man was arrested, and the case was swiftly closed. In the decades since, Claire has attempted to forget her traumatic past by moving to the city and climbing the ranks as an…| Hooks, Books, & Wanderlust
How is our cultural desire for nothingness reflected within the growing depiction of women's mental health issues in literature? The post Woman Seeks Oblivion: ‘Nothingness’ in Contemporary Fiction appeared first on The Culture Sift.| The Culture Sift
I was completely swept away by The Italian Flame – a deeply emotional story of love, loss, and family secrets, set in Dorset and a stunning Italian village.| Jera's Jamboree
About the Book: Set against the wild backdrop of an intense heatwave in Europe, this is a story about sibling relationships – what holds a family together and what might fracture it forever. …| Theresa Smith Writes
Down in the City is Elizabeth Harrower’s first novel, published in 1957. It tells the story of Esther Prescott, a sheltered woman who has grown up wealthy and motherless, who marries a man af…| Theresa Smith Writes
About the Book: Charlie, a prime-time radio producer in her early thirties, has always had a big group of friends – until she left her husband, and they all sided with him. Now she finds herself fl…| Theresa Smith Writes
ARC provided by the publisher via NetGalley. This post includes affiliate links that kick us a small percentage - at no cost to you - if you use them to shop. If this post is useful, please use them to support my work - it's so appreciated! Sarah MacLean's new contemporary fiction novel is hitting| dailywaffle.com
After a devastating loss, Brynn Wilder escapes to Wharton, a tourist town on Lake Superior, to reset. In her fellow lodgers, she finds a friendly company of strangers. But in this inviting refuge, where a century of souls has passed, a mystery begins to swirl. Alice knows things about Brynn, about all of them, that…| Hooks, Books, & Wanderlust
About the Book: Claire O’Connor’s life has been on hold since she broke up with Tom Morton and moved from cosmopolitan London back home to the rugged West of Ireland to care for her dying father. B…| Theresa Smith Writes
About the Book: In the freezing January of 1989, mother-of-two Birdie Keller wakes to the news she’s been waiting seventeen years to hear: the man who destroyed her life has been freed from jail. B…| Theresa Smith Writes
About the Book: When Graham Cavanaugh divorced his first wife it was to marry his girlfriend, Audra, a woman as irrepressible as she is spontaneous and fun. But, Graham learns, life with Audra can …| Theresa Smith Writes
About the Book: Being in limbo, 30,000 feet in the air, offers time to reflect and take stock. For Aaron Umber, it’s an opportunity to connect with his 14-year-old son as they travel halfway across…| Theresa Smith Writes
About the Book: Duncan is charming, handsome – and Jane falls in love with him easily. But he has also slept with nearly every woman in Boyne City. Jane sees Duncan’s old girlfriends everywhe…| Theresa Smith Writes
About the Book: ‘Lonely mouth … It’s a Japanese expression. It means, like, you feel like you want to eat something, but you don’t know what it is. You’re looking for …| Theresa Smith Writes
About the Book: Broome 2023: when Saskia’s free-spirited mother leaves her a caravan in her will, it doesn’t make sense. Saskia is a schoolteacher, tied to plans and schedules, even if they are beg…| Theresa Smith Writes
Theodore Finch constantly thinks of ways he might kill himself. But each time, he finds something good that stops him. Violet Markey is aching with grief and struggling to continue on living in the wake of her sister’s recent death. When Finch and Violet meet on the ledge of the bell tower at school, it’s…| Hooks, Books, & Wanderlust
Book reviews, snippets of book news, and alerts about books outside the glare of the publicity spotlight.| A life in books
It seems like any other day. You wake up, pour a cup of coffee, and head out. But today, when you open your front door, waiting for you is a small wooden box. This box holds your fate inside: the answer to the exact number of years you will live. Enchanting and deeply uplifting, The Measure is…| Hooks, Books, & Wanderlust
I've already made a big list of 2025 book releases, but of course I can't fit all of them in one post so here is part two!| colour me read
About the Book: WINNER OF THE 2025 MUD LITERARY PRIZE Missing in every sense of the word, a man walks into the landscape and doesn’t stop. In all weather and across all kinds of terrain, Ingv…| Theresa Smith Writes
About the Book: It’s the day before her daughter’s wedding and things are not going well for Gail Baines. First thing, she loses her job – or quits, depending who you ask. Then her ex-husband Max t…| Theresa Smith Writes
About the Book: WINNER OF THE READINGS NEW AUSTRALIAN FICTION PRIZE Mary Anne is painfully aware that she’s not a good wife and not a good mother, and is slowly realising that she no longer w…| Theresa Smith Writes
About the Book: Dominic Salt and his three children are caretakers of Shearwater, a tiny island not far from Antarctica. Home to the world’s largest seed bank, Shearwater was once full of researche…| Theresa Smith Writes
About the Book: What would you do if you found out you’d been raising another couple’s child – and they’ve been raising yours? Fourteen years ago, Kelsey and Raf Maccioni le…| Theresa Smith Writes
About the Book: When Giselle escapes to the north Yorkshire village of Hollydale, she doesn’t give much thought to what she might find there. She’s more concerned with what she’s leavin…| Theresa Smith Writes
About the Book: WINNER OF THE 2024 MATT RICHELL AWARD FOR NEW WRITER OF THE YEAR Hera Stephen is clawing through her mid-twenties, working as an underpaid comment moderator in an overly air-conditi…| Theresa Smith Writes
About the Book: It’s a beautiful day in Newport, Rhode Island, when Phoebe Stone arrives at a grand beachside hotel wearing her best dress and least comfortable shoes. Immediately she is mist…| Theresa Smith Writes
About the Book: When Caitlin inherits a significant sum of money on her fortieth birthday, she decides to break the habits of a lifetime and throw caution to the winds. She’s about to tell he…| Theresa Smith Writes
About the Book: Twenty-four-year-old British painter Cleo has escaped from England to New York and is still finding her place in the sleepless city when, a few months before her student visa ends, …| Theresa Smith Writes
About the Book: Lucy is running from what she’s done – and what someone did to her. There’s only one person who might understand: her sister Jess. But when Lucy arrives at her sister’s desolate cli…| Theresa Smith Writes
About the Book: From the author of the multimillion-copy bestseller Normal People, an exquisitely moving story about grief, love and family. Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Pe…| Theresa Smith Writes
It's time to share my anticipated 2025 book releases, so I made a list of them to share with you all! Get stoked!| colour me read
If this isn’t another example of how terribly behind I am in life.., here ya go 🙃 My Review: Allow me first to say that this book was just another reason why I have put this series down as qu…| The Becca Files
A laugh-out-loud graphic novel with important lessons about pursuing your dreams Thank you so much to TBR and Beyond Tours and Tori Sharp for allowing me to be part of this experience and also providing me with a complimentary copy… Continue reading →| Jenjenreviews
About the Book: He knew there was a cost. He just didn’t know how great it’d be. Gabriel Kelly returned to Russia for one reason—to bury his parents. After ten years in the United States, he hadn’t…| Books Less Travelled
Tall and sharp at fifty-two, Campbell Flynn was a tinderbox in a Savile Row suit, a man who believed his childhood was so far behind him that all its threats had vanished. He had secrets and troubl…| This Reading Life
When neatly packed male body parts wash up by the River Elbe, Hamburg State Prosecutor Chastity Riley and her colleagues begin a perplexing investigation. As the murdered men are identified, it bec…| A Little Book Problem
Kristen Petersen is facing a medically necessary procedure that will make it impossible for her to have children. Planning her best friend's wedding is bittersweet for Kristen -- especially when she meets the best man, Josh Copeland. He's funny, sexy, never offended by her mile-wide streak of sarcasm, and always one chicken enchilada ahead of…| Hooks, Books, & Wanderlust
A sister is not a friend. Who can explain the urge to take a relationship as primal and complex as a sibling and reduce it to something as replaceable, as banal as a friend? Have you ever read a bo…| This Reading Life
The One Hundred Years of Lenni and MargotPublisher: Random House UKPub Date: 1 June 2021Genre: Contemporary FictionPanda Rating:(4.5 pandas) 📖 SYNOPSIS Life is short.No-one knows that better than s…| dinipandareads
