Book reviews, snippets of book news, and alerts about books outside the glare of the publicity spotlight.| A life in books
In this fascinating, deeply moving book, the Italian writer Marta Barone takes the reader on a journey to reconstruct the father, Leonardo Barone (LB), she only partially knew before his death – an investigation that takes us back to The Years of Lead, a time of radical protest and political turmoil in Italy during the […]| JacquiWine's Journal
© 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
May has been chock-full of new releases for me! For this first batch of reviews, I’m featuring three fantastic graphic novels that have made it onto my Best of 2025 (so far) list. I don’t read grap…| 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