If you remember, I posted about joining a reading challenge for 3 months. It's now ended and this is all I've read for the challenge (promptwise). Come and see!| DB's Guide to the Galaxy
This is the first book I’ve read by Hanne Ørstavik. Stay With Me is her sixteenth novel. She has won multiple awards in her native Norway and her novel Love, translated into English by Martin Aitken, was a finalist in the 2018 National Book Awards for Translated Literature in the US. Aitken is the translator […]| What I Think About When I Think About Reading
In When Women Kill, translated by Sophie Hughes, Chilean author Alia Trabucco Zerán examines four true crime cases, each one a murder committed by a woman, to reveal the backgrounds of those women and the reasons they chose violence. Zerán trained as a lawyer, and this book draws on that training to dissect why some […]| What I Think About When I Think About Reading
Nina Bouraoui’s novel Satisfaction is told in the form of journal entries. The journals, seven of them, belong to Mme Akli and cover the period 1977-1978. Mme Akli is a French woman married t…| What I Think About When I Think About Reading
Summer of Horror 2025 is hosted by Books, Bones & Buffy. Join us as we indulge in horror reads this summer. Fridays are reserved for featuring great horror covers/titles in a category of your choosing. This week I am sharing ten horror books with winged creatures on the cover. I did my best to feature … Continue reading Summer of Horror 2025: Book Covers with Winged Creatures| A Kernel of Nonsense
Here’s my month in books for December 2024: what I’ve read, what I’m currently enjoying, and what I’m looking forward to.| Pages and Coffee Cups
Sign up, share, and view review links for the 2025 Books in Translation Reading Challenge hosted at Introverted Reader!| Introverted Reader
Frankie Miren’s novel The Service follows three women involved in the sex industry in different ways. Lori is an illegal sex worker trying to forge a better life for herself and her daughter.…| What I Think About When I Think About Reading
What is the challenge? The 52 Book Club’s annual reading challenge is made up of 52 unique prompts. The goal is to match one book to each prompt, for a total of fifty-two books over the course of t…| chonkybooks.wordpress.com
An academic walks into a room. He is faced by eight other people. He’s a late arrival, the meeting is almost over. A government official introduces him badly, getting his name wrong, misrepresenting his work and generally not having done his research properly. It’s an inauspicious start to his involvement in a government commission into […]| What I Think About When I Think About Reading
Keeping the House is the 2021 debut novel of North Londoner Tice Cin (pronounced Teejah Djin, for anyone like me whose English tongue wanders towards what it looks like to us). Set amongst the Turk…| What I Think About When I Think About Reading
It’s that time of the year again for a mid-year check-in! Plus: what I’ve read in the past quarter, what I’m currently enjoying, and what I’m looking forward to.| Pages and Coffee Cups
Hello fellow bookworms 📚 The first half of the year is already over, and I cannot quite believe it! Once again, I wanted to reflect on my progress with the Reading Challenges I joined this year, as…| The Bookcheshire Cat
In Manya Wilkinson’s tragicomedy Lublin, three teenage boys walk from Medritsch (Międzyrzec Podlaski) to Lublin along a road none of them have traversed before, in more ways than one. It is August 1907. Elya, Kiva and Ziv are taking brushes manufactured by Kiva’s uncle to market. Elya has made himself leader of the expedition. He […]| What I Think About When I Think About Reading
4/5☕ | Better late than never, here’s my review of the first 6 books of ACF Booken’s St. Marin’s Cozy Mystery Series – a book series that scratched the itch in my cozy myste…| Pages and Coffee Cups
Yuri Herrera is a new author to me. Season of the Swamp is his imagining of an 18 month period between December 1853 and June 1855 when Benito Juárez was in exile in New Orleans. The novel is descr…| What I Think About When I Think About Reading
Ivey invited students to join her 3rd Annual Summer Reading Challenge and encouraged participation in a national reading challenge too.| Alabama Political Reporter
Welcome to the Monthly Spotlight for the 2025 Nonfiction Reader Challenge! Each month I highlight some of the reviews shared for the challenge in the linky Don’t forget to link each book you r…| Book’d Out
We’ve had a hot couple of weeks in Manchester. It has felt like summer and the cover of Adam S Leslie’s Lost in the Garden called to me from Book Mountain. I wanted an adventure that wo…| What I Think About When I Think About Reading
This post contains affiliate links Grab a crisp cold glass of Sauvy B, curl up in your lounge chair or on the beach and get ready to get lost in 12 of the best summer beach reads. These books will instantly transport you to breezy beaches, idyllic islands, and are filled with family drama, sizzling romances, thrilling suspense or inspiring stories of finding yourself. 12 Summer Beach Reads To Get Lost In Hotter in the Hamptons by Tinx – At first I chose this book just for the title and the ...| Our Tiny Nest
Welcome to my monthly wrap-up for April 2025! I’m a bit late again this month. I just really have not had any motivation to do these monthly wrap-up posts this year. They’ve honestly begun to feel like a bit of a chore, but I do feel accomplished when I finally finish them. So, here it […]| Biblio Nerd Reflections
Jessi Jezewska Stevens’ novel The Visitors follows a former textile artist turned art supply seller, known only as C, as she navigates keeping her business afloat, repaying her medical debt, …| What I Think About When I Think About Reading
It is 1982 and Swanna Swain is 14 years old. Her parents, both academics in their forties, both having a midlife crisis, have separated. They send Swanna and her younger brother Madding to summer c…| What I Think About When I Think About Reading
Revolution in the Head is touted as an indispensable Beatles book, a masterpiece and an astonishing achievement of pop criticism and scholarship. The edition that I read is the 1998 update that inc…| What I Think About When I Think About Reading
Can you believe the first quarter of the year is already done? Feels like it came and went quickly, and turbulently if you’re in my part of the world. Reading-wise, it was a decent quarter, a…| Zezee With Books
Biblio Nerd Reflections looks back at books read in March 2025 and progress toward annual goals in this monthly wrap-up.| Biblio Nerd Reflections
Here’s my months in books for the first quarter (January to March) of 2025: what I’ve read, what I’m currently enjoying, and what I’m looking forward to.| Pages and Coffee Cups
Adam Scovell’s third novel is loosely based on his own memories of growing up on the Wirral, Merseyside, and, through his usual mix of prose and photographic fragments, examines how a place a…| What I Think About When I Think About Reading
Four years ago I bought a book from Manchester’s Modernist Society shop about Wales’s modernist architecture (sort-of review here – I still haven’t completed my attempt at t…| What I Think About When I Think About Reading
Lucie McKnight Hardy’s debut novel weaves together a smattering of personal experience with folk horror tropes to create a quiet novel about revenge, belonging and control. It’s an unse…| What I Think About When I Think About Reading
Henry and Astrid: a psychiatrist and a singer, drawn together at one of her gigs into an unequal relationship. Told in alternating chapters, Henry’s relayed in the first person, Astrid’…| What I Think About When I Think About Reading
Hello, my lovely lemons! 🍋 Since this is my last week off before my new job starts (I got a job!), I thought I’d get one last week-long reading challenge in! This is one I was first inspired to try…| Scribbles & Stories
Reading books, tracking my reading, and discussing them are among the few luxuries in my life that I never tire of over the years. So, it’s that time of year again for the update that no one …| Pages and Coffee Cups
Why I Made My Reading Goal Only 25 Books I didn’t have the best reading year in 2024. I finished with around 84 books or so, which isn’t terrible, but I read about 150 in 2023 so it’s a steep drop. I definitely had other things going on, and it wasn’t a great mental health […] The post Why I Made My Reading Goal Only 25 Books appeared first on Shooting Stars Mag.| Shooting Stars Mag
Another thing I enjoy doing around this time of year is making reading plans and forming TBR lists. As you’d have seen, I sometimes stick to the plans, but I never stick to TBR lists, lol, no matte…| Zezee With Books
Death Comes for the Archbishop is a retelling of the story of Catholic priests Jean-Baptiste Lamy and Joseph Projectus Machebeuf and their mission to New Mexico. Set in the period shortly after New…| What I Think About When I Think About Reading
I’m excited to present the 2025 Thoughtful Reading Challenge, and doubly happy that I’m still around to host it! Each year, Book Thoughts From Bed hosts a low pressure book challenge de…| Book Thoughts from Bed
In just a few weeks we’ll be waving goodbye to 2024 and bracing ourselves for whatever 2025 might bring. For those of us who are so inclined, it’s time think about which reading challenges we plan …| bookforager
Hello fellow bookworms 💗 The Out of Comfort Zone Challenge is returning for 2025! As you might have seen in my wrapups, I had a difficult year and didn’t promote the challenge as much as I co…| The Bookcheshire Cat
A look back at the month of July 2024 with a focus on reading (books & comics), blogging, and progress on annual goals.| Biblio Nerd Reflections
Mister N is about a novelist who has lost his sanity. He has left his apartment, he says, because he could no longer live in the shadow of a high rise being built alongside it. He has checked into …| What I Think About When I Think About Reading
Hello, my lovely lemons! 🍋 I’ve been wanting to start quarterly wrap-ups, since I’m really trying to focus on keeping track of my goals this year. As opposed to my usual of shouting int…| Scribbles & Stories
Leave the Capital is wonderful. Informative, chatty and funny, it traces a path from the 1960s to the 1990s and argues that a handful of Mancunian bands who were also-rans in the Beatles era paved …| What I Think About When I Think About Reading
In its flap copy and its cover blurbs, Feminist City is framed as a treatise on how urban spaces have ended up so gendered and how a different way of thinking about cities and the people who live a…| What I Think About When I Think About Reading
From one forgotten author to another. I’m still reluctant to return to the second book I picked up for 10 Books of Summer and instead have chosen Traces of Enayat, Iman Mersal’s account…| What I Think About When I Think About Reading
The second quarter of the year was marked by rereads, as the majority of books below are rereads. My motivation to read and blog waned some this quarter, so I turned to rereads to prevent any slump…| Zezee With Books
Synopsis “Candide was the most brilliant challenge to the idea endemic in Voltaire’s day, that ‘all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.’ It was the indiffere…| Hannah's Library
Hello fellow bookworms 📚 The first half of the year is already over and I cannot quite believe it! Once again, I wanted to reflect on my progress with the Reading Challenges I joined this year, as …| The Bookcheshire Cat
“What on earth shall I do when I get home? Read? All books are the same – about beautiful girls who get married or married women who fall in love with their husbands. In books things al…| What I Think About When I Think About Reading
It’s been a whole ten years since the first 20 Books of Summer Reading Challenge! That’s a decade of frazzled reading, rushed reviews and brilliant piles of books. Shall we do it again?…| 746books.com