Well the verdict is in! We can stop speculating. The Booker Longlist 2026 has finally been announced. There were 2 books I was sure would make the list and they did, The Disappearers by Marlon James and John of John by Douglas Stuart. I’m not familiar with a lot of the list but there are […]
Happy New Year Y’all! Wishing you all great reading in this new year. Yes I have been MIA for quite a while and I have decided to make some changes this year and to write more here. I really loved writing blog posts before and I’ll have to get back into the groove so please […]
Books are forever! When I say that, I literally mean it. We can’t forget about books from the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s and even the early 2000s. Backlist books are still around and can shine light on our thirsty TBRs. I describe our TBRs as thirsty because they contain nothing more than the newest books […]
September has already started off with a book bang with Lazaretto by Diane McKinney-Whetstone. This is not a new novel. It was published back in 2016. I don’t know what it is with backlist books but they always seem to hit the sweet spot. These days there are so many books coming out that it’s […]
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We’re already 16 days into the new new year and I’m already anticipating the new book releases of 2024. I don’t usually search them out so early. I prefer waiting to hear about them as the year unfolds. I’ve chosen a mix of books that I genuinely find interesting and that I would love to […]
The thirteenth novel in Émile Zola’s great Rougon-Macquart sequence, Germinal expresses outrage at the exploitation of the many by the few, but also shows humanity’s capacity for compassion and hope. Etienne Lantier, an unemployed railway worker, is a clever but uneducated young man with a dangerous temper. Forced to take a back-breaking job at Le […]
I have loved reading for so long that it isn’t a surprise that I’m now running 2 book clubs – one here in Normandy where I live (It’s been going now for over 15 years) and the second one is called the Read Soul Lit Book Club and it’s on its third year over on […]
I’ll be trying to participate in the Runwright Reads Summer Reading Challenge which is June 21 – September 23, 2023. Now I’m already participating in a few more reading challenges but if I could read at least 5 books to tick off five of these 14 prompts I’ll be thrilled. What I’m looking forward to […]
“An irresistible comic novel from the master storyteller Percival Everett, and an irreverent take on race, class, and identity in America I was, in life, to be a gambler, a risk-taker, a swashbuckler, a knight. I accepted, then and there, my place in the world. I was a fighter of windmills. I was a […]
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