Tag: fiction
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WWW Wednesday, 28th September
WWW Wednesday is hosted by Sam over on Taking on a World of Words. All you have to do is answer the following three ‘W’ questions below. What are you currently reading? What did you recently finish reading? What do you think you’ll read next? Currently Reading: Just Finished: Reading Next:
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Book Review: The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki
This is a story about death, grief, books, material possessions, mental health, mental illness, zen ideology, hoarding, clutter, consumerism, single parenthood… the list goes on and makes this story sound both expansive and perhaps rather dark. Expansive it certainly is. It stretches to 546 pages in hardback, has four points of view, and took me […]
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Top Ten Tuesday: Books In My Future Library
Today’s topic is ‘Books I Loved So Much I Had to Get a Copy for My Personal Library’. My personal library is just at the moment suffering from lack of space…
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June Wrap Up
This wrap up (and indeed my most recent reading) has been rudely delayed by an unwelcome house-guest in the form of Covid, but since he has now pretty much departed – leaving muddy footprints and damp drink rings everywhere I might add – we are attempting to resume normal life. Books I Read in June […]
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First Lines Friday #3
First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. Today’s book was a gift to me that I’m very much looking forward to reading.
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Review: The Dance Tree by Kiran Millwood Hargrave #20booksofsummer22
This is one of those rare (for me) reviews splurged out immediately after reading the last line of the book, which is telling to how much I was gripped by The Dance Tree’s final chapters.
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Spotlight on ‘The Ledge’, a short story by Michael Meyerhofer
Sometimes short fiction really hits the spot!
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Review: These Great Athenians by Valentine Carter
Reach for These Great Athenians if you are in the mood for poetry, imagery, beauty, humour, and a sad yet hopeful message, all wrapped up in the weave of myth.
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Review: Companion Piece by Ali Smith
The experience of reading this book was like that of reading a poem or looking at a painting…
em with pen 🖋 