I bought this book at the Tattered Cover bookstore, during my visit to Denver, which is very fitting as its author worked there for w while. While I was there, I tried to buy books by local authors and clearly, I succeeded. It is partially a book about a bookstore, which is what caught my eye, …
Continue reading Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore – Matthew Sullivan
New Year typically means new resolutions, as it did for me, but it also meant moving into a new apartment! After seven months of looking we finally found the perfect place and last weekend the Big Move took place. And a Big Move it was indeed, maybe not distance-wise, as we only moved a few …
I only just managed to finish my 2018 project, having missed a few months in the middle of the year I had a crazy catch up in October. Then in November, I had to make another change to my plans, but in December, for the last stretch, I managed to get back on track. I …
Continue reading Liberia – 12 bookshops for 12 months – December
I am so much behind with reviewing the books I read that I’m still going back to books I read in the summer and fall of 2018, but maybe it is good, for 2018 was, in general, a good year for me. I bought this book during my crazy book-crawl back in October. As one …
As a teacher, she also knows that to state the obvious is, in fact, a sure sign of stupidity. This is how my story of Young Woman as a Runaway Daughter became, in effect, the great battle of My Mother versus the Head Lice. And because my mother won this battle, the story was told …
It is not a pleasant book, it could not be given that the subject here is the first-person account of home abuse. Our narrator is a writer and a young wife when we first hear her voice she actually is no longer a wife. The first time she speaks to us is to reclaim her …
Continue reading When I Hit You: Or the Portrait of a Writer as a Young Wife – Meena Kandasamy
I know you all have been flooded by this type of posts in the last few days, but it's that time of the year. We all just have to bear it with dignity and write our own post on the best books and our plans 😉 As always I just could not decide on a …
