Before reading this book, all I knew of Flaubert was Mme Bovary and all I knew of Julian Barnes was Arthur & George , although I do have...

How can I possibly choose which one is next? Help!

  I have always loved Maggie O'Farrell's books (...always? ohhhhhkay there was one exception ), but for some reason I initially put ...

I have been reading this book little bit by little bit over a number of months (YES, okay, if you must know, I kept it in the bathroom. This...

I have really liked other Ian McEwan novels I've read (particularly Atonement ; I haven't read all of his work, though eventually I ...

I actually read this book between Scent of Flowers  and The Fell  but then completely forgot to blog about it. I'm not sure I would have...

With The Fell , Sarah Moss has created a novella that is very evocative of the pandemic we are only just now finding our way out of. It'...

This slim little volume is beautifully written and impeccably translated, though this is no surprise based on the author and translator. In ...

I loved this book and I hate that I put off reading it for so long. And when I did read it, I started by gulping down more than half of it o...

I bought this book by mistake. Well, maybe mistake is not exactly the right word, but here’s what happened. We were browsing in Half Price B...

I started reading this book back in January and never really got into it. I have no idea why, but it just did not grab me. Then I started re...

Yep I picked this one because it's brief. It’s right there in the title.  It makes me feel virtuous to read a biography. This one was li...