This week’s prompt is books by favourite authors you still haven’t read. So I’m dividing this post into sections and, as usual, putting my own spin on it. The first half is true to the prompt, but the second half is tying in with a booktube trend of predicting books on your TBR you READ MORE
Month: September 2018
THE SUNDAY REVIEW | FROM A LOW AND QUIET SEA – DONAL RYAN
Donal Ryan’s novel All We Shall Know got a lot of attention a couple of years ago – for its beautiful writing style more than anything. I tried to read it and found it just wasn’t the right book at the right time for me, but I figured From a Low and Quiet Sea READ MORE
MAN BOOKER PRIZE | 2018 SHORTLIST PREDICTIONS
It’s nearly here! The Man Booker Prize shortlist is set to be revealed tomorrow, and all of us who follow book prizes are buzzing with guesses and opinions. By the time the shortlist is announced, I will have read three novels in their entirety – Warlight, From a Low and Quiet Sea and Normal READ MORE
SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE | 2018 LONGLIST
Yesterday the longlist for one of my favourite literary prizes was announced! It’s the Scotiabank Giller Prize, which is a Canadian prize for fiction. So first, for those of you who aren’t Canadian and/or haven’t heard of the prize before, here’s a little bit about it: The Giller Prize was founded in 1994 by READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | BOOKS ON MY FALL TBR
I have a few posts I’m working on at the moment, so I’m going to keep this one simple and just share the covers of some of the books I’m interested in reading without providing much in the way of explanation. If you want to know more about any of the books – or READ MORE
TOP TEN TUESDAY | HIDDEN GEMS
Every once in a while an avid reader is lucky enough to pick up a lesser-known book and be completely blown away. When that happens there’s always one question that we mull over at great length: why isn’t anyone talking about this brilliant book? Here are a few of the ones I’ve come across READ MORE