September 17, 2021 · 6:04 p.m. I’ve read a lot of great books over the summer and now I have a lot of reviews to pick up. Unsettled Ground by Claire Fuller It tells the story of 51-year-old twins, Jeanie and Julius, who still live in an isolated countryside with their mother, until their sudden…
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More books I read in June
July 4, 2021 · 8:57 p.m. Notes on an Apocalypse: The End of the World and Personal Return by Mark O’Connell He continues with another book about his future that won the Wellcome Award for Transhumanism To Be a Machine, this time exploring ways to prepare people for ecological and social collapse. O’Connell travels to…
How to get started as an author
Writing a book and becoming an author seems pretty straightforward, but the reality is that it’s never been that easy, especially if you want to write a great book that people want to read. Becoming an author involves creating, creating, and producing some kind of written work, usually a book, novel, poem, story, or other…
Booker Prize 2021 long list
July 29, 2021 · 6:14 p.m. The long list of Booker Awards was published on Tuesday. These are the 13 titles: A Passage North Anuk by Arudpragasam Second place went to Rachel CuskDamon Galguten PromiseThe Sweetness of Water by Nathan HarrisClara and the Sun by Kazuo IshiguroAn Island, by Karen JenningsA Town Called Solace by…
The Perfect December Book Box – Boxwalla
One of the ways I’ve expanded my reading is that Boxwalla bookstore service is great. In this age of fashion books, acclaimed books, and one-minute videos selling a book, Boxwalla is a breath of fresh air. For those unfamiliar with this box service, Boxwall offers subscription plans and sends you boxes: books, food, movie, depending…
Grace Dent’s Hungry and Pen Vogler’s Scoff
Grace Dent’s gose She shares many thematic similarities with Olivia Potts ’A Half-Baked Idea, both of which are memories of the joy of food, starting out in a competitive London career and in difficult family situations. Although Potts ’memoir enrolled in a baking course at the Cordon Bleu cooking school, after deciding not to pursue…
Review: Lost things from Okwiri Oduor
I love books with houses, and fictional towns with a close sense of community. In They lost things By Okwiri Oduor, Mabel Brown is an old palace that house, on top of the fictional Kenyan town of Mapeli. Imagine a palace falling “dirty and rough”: squeaky gates, stone angels, “thorn-balls and wildflowers and stiff yellow…
The best 9 K-dramas of 2021
I’m usually immersed in knee-deep romantic and enjoyable Korean drama. However, 2021 has been a nice and amazing mix on the watch list: cheering on an old man who dreams of dancing, investing heavily in pretty brain cells in a blue suit with a lot of work, or spending sleepless nights after bloody and violent…
My most anticipated books of 2022
The list of books expected soon in 2022 is growing day by day, so here are some of the highlights. All known publication dates apply to the UK only. Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara it came out this month and includes an alternate version of New York, 1893, 1993, and 2093. So far I’ve only heard…
14 Awesome Books for all Moods of 2022
This year looks like an amazing year for books. If you are in the mood for some unsupervised shopping sprees with a toxic friend or in the mood to unearth a financial scandal or rather be stuck in time jumps spanning five hundred years, this list has got you covered. Let’s get cracking on some…
Killing Strangers | Ram Gopal
PLOT: 5/5 CHARACTERS: 5/5 WRITING STYLE: 5/5 CLIMAX: 5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 5/5 Killing Strangers is a moving, stunning, terrifying and beautifully woven, educational and entertaining premiere in equal proportions, set in the Americas of recent times. There is so much going on at the same time in the novel that it is difficult to read…
Crime books I read recently
April 25, 2021 · 5:45 p.m. Your house will be paid for by Steph Cha It is a novel about two families in Los Angeles, a Korean-American and an African-American. It is a fictional version of a true case where Soon Ja Du, the owner of a Korean women’s shop, shot and killed a 15-year-old…