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Last year, my lovely friend Mandy gifted me a copy of Rachel Joyce's new novel, Miss Benson's Beetle. I had read and enjoyed Joyce's first book, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, so I was delighted to have the chance to read her latest work. From the blurb: "It is 1950. In a devastating moment … Continue reading Miss Benson’s Beetle by Rachel Joyce: A Girl’s Own Adventure
Why do we read? For pleasure and entertainment of course. To expand our horizons when we can't travel anywhere. And to learn about other lives and experiences. Shadows On The Tundra falls in the second and third of these categories. It is not a 'pleasure and entertainment' book in any way. It is a serious and … Continue reading Book Review: Shadows on the Tundra by Dalia Grinkevičiutė (trans. Delija Valiukenas) #WITMonth #WomenInTranslation
Ta-Nehisi Coates is an American author and journalist who is perhaps best known for his non-fiction. His book Between The World And Me explores America's racial history in the form of a letter to his teenage son and won the National Book Award for non-fiction in 2015. The Water Dancer is his first work of fiction. Published … Continue reading Book Review: The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives" ~ Annie Dillard This famous quote by Dillard from her brilliant book, The Writing Life, is the quietest yet most insistent of clarion calls: give small attention to the largest of questions about how to make the most of our lives. She goes … Continue reading Book Review: Making a Life by Melanie Falick
