Bloody Awful in Different Ways by Andrev Walden (transl. Ian Giles): Seven dads in seven years - A life in books
Book reviews, snippets of book news, and alerts about books outside the glare of the publicity spotlight.| A life in books
(Part I covered Berlin.) Three works of short fiction embodied the rest of our journeying, from Berlin to Lübeck to home. We were sad to say goodbye to Lemmy and Roxanne, the affectionate, fluffy cats who came with our Berlin flat, but there were further adventures to be had. The hosts of our Lübeck Airbnb […]| Bookish Beck
We’ve actually been back for more than a week, but soon after our return I was felled by a nasty cold (not Covid, surprisingly), which has left me with a lingering cough and ongoing fatigue. Finally, I’m recovered just about enough to report back. This Interrail adventure was more low-key than the one we took […]| Bookish Beck
A 50-something French woman looks back on her rebellious teenage years and the pursuit of her one true love: to be a successful writer.| Reading Matters
Book reviews, snippets of book news, and alerts about books outside the glare of the publicity spotlight.| A life in books
© C A Lovegrove. Elizabeth and her German Garden by Elizabeth von Arnim. Introduction by Elizabeth Jane Howard. Virago Press, 1985 (1898). May 16th.—’The garden is the place I go to for refug…| Calmgrove Books
That Day I see my sister — the youngest — the one who waits for me. I see her discontentment…| Legacy Book Press LLC
My “Most Anticipated” designation sometimes seems like a kiss of death, but other times the books I choose for these lists live up to my expectations, or surpass them! (Looking back at the 25 books…| Bookish Beck
In her latest, Sheila Heti embarks on an inverted Oulipian experiment, producing content in a fundamentally unrestricted manner.| Public Books
Some novellas-in-flash involve storylines (and story-worlds) that are clearly fictional – for example some of the books mentioned in this recent list of speculative/sci-fi novellas. Other wri…| The Novella-in-Flash
I started my 10 Books of Summer badly with a book I’m finding quite dry. I was delighted, therefore, when my library reservation for Caliban Shrieks came available and I could put my chosen r…| What I Think About When I Think About Reading
