Book review - Jeremiah Moss - "Feral City"
New York, pandemic, memoir, LGBTQIA, trans authors, protest| Adventures in reading, running and working from home
I receive quite a lot of requests to read and review people’s books and I usually turn them down; however, this one intrigued me, a 50-year-old woman walking out of her life and escaping thousands of miles away, but the concentration being on the two adult children and the husband she’s left behind. I then […]| Adventures in reading, running and working from home
Three books I’ve read via NetGalley written by authors from an East Asian background. They are all really good and recommended – hooray! They’re all set around small businesses, funnily enough. And “Pick a Colour” fulfils the #SpinsterSeptember theme as well, as did Clare Balding’s first novel, “Pastures New” which I enjoyed but couldn’t find […]| Adventures in reading, running and working from home
Back in June, I was lucky enough to receive two more of British Library Publishing’s volumes in their British Library Women Writers series. The first one was G.B. Stern’s intriguing “The Woman in the Hall” and now we have a 1934 novel with a very interesting perspective. It also handily fits in with the #SpinsterSeptember […]| Adventures in reading, running and working from home
New York, pandemic, memoir, LGBTQIA, trans authors, protest| Adventures in reading, running and working from home
How could I resist a novel about running a marathon, even though I fear my own marathon-running days might be over? Well I couldn’t, in two consecutive months, then I had to read them together and review them together, of course. In fact, as both the main characters run London, I like to think they […]| Adventures in reading, running and working from home
Today two non-fiction books published last month and this (I have now completed my August reads!) and acquired via NetGalley in May. Both interesting reads in their different ways, both delving into history and looking at the present day. Malik al Nasir – “Searching for my Slave Roots: From Guyana’s Sugar Plantations to Cambridge” (7 […]| Adventures in reading, running and working from home
It’s time for another Moomin book read (our penultimate!) with Kaggsysbookishramblings! We had some short stories last month, and are now back to longer form – in fact this is the longest one of the set. I have to say I’m not sure what to make of this one, though I have a couple of […]| Adventures in reading, running and working from home
Football, history, Wales, Wrexham, TV| Adventures in reading, running and working from home
Romance, village life, Christmas| Adventures in reading, running and working from home
Book confessions, books, Nonfiction November, Novellas in November| Adventures in reading, running and working from home
Disability, activism, acting| Adventures in reading, running and working from home
Romance, Iceland, found family| Adventures in reading, running and working from home
Travel, railways, race, gender, motherhood| Adventures in reading, running and working from home
TBR pile, books to read, book confessions| Adventures in reading, running and working from home
TBR pile, books to read, book confessions| Adventures in reading, running and working from home
pop music, biography, autobiography| Adventures in reading, running and working from home
Empire, colonialism, Britain, British history, world history| Adventures in reading, running and working from home
Empire, colonialism, Britain, British history, world history| Adventures in reading, running and working from home
Living with disability, community, Tourette's, hearing loss, acceptance, ableism| Adventures in reading, running and working from home
#WITMonth, women in translation, Spanish novels, Galician novels, translated novels, London, immigrant experience| Adventures in reading, running and working from home
Running, race, class, gender, education, poverty, Birmingham| Adventures in reading, running and working from home
Empire, colonialism, Britain, British history, world history| Adventures in reading, running and working from home
Moomins, Finnish fiction, short stories| Adventures in reading, running and working from home
Road trip novels, Taiwanese Americans, sibling stories, family| Adventures in reading, running and working from home
Romantic comedy, Nigerian Britons, marriage, friendship, women's health| Adventures in reading, running and working from home
Moomins85, Moomin stories, Finnish novels| Adventures in reading, running and working from home
Puffin Island series, island novels, romance, bookshops, writers| Adventures in reading, running and working from home
Moomins, displacement, refugees, Finnish novels| Adventures in reading, running and working from home
Moomins, Finland| Adventures in reading, running and working from home
Novels set in New York, one percenters, trust fund divestment, class| Adventures in reading, running and working from home
book confessions, book hauls, TBR, reading challenges, books| Adventures in reading, running and working from home
novels set in Iran, novels set in the US, immigrant experience, class, race, gender, families| Adventures in reading, running and working from home
Romance, village novels, middle-aged heroines, older characters| Adventures in reading, running and working from home
1934 novels, neurodiversity, novellas, art| Adventures in reading, running and working from home
African history, Africa, history, African academics| Adventures in reading, running and working from home
Enough became enough in December 2023. I’ve got so many lovely books that I was so excited to acquire and read, and then they have sat there unread for ages and ages. I have always read my bo…| Adventures in reading, running and working from home
