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Review: Peace Like a River, Leif Enger
It was a surprise to rediscover this. I first read this on my year abroad around fifteen years ago. I was adrift and alone, living in a remote town which had an population of approximately zero between...
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Review: Exiles, Jane Harper
A busy festival. A warm night. A pram standing unattended. Tucked inside is a six-week old infant and her mother is nowhere to be seen, vanished into the crowds. Flash forward a year and Kim Gillespie...
View ArticleReview: Impossible, Sarah Lotz
I am always hesitant to try out rom-coms because if I don’t enjoy them then I feel like an absolute Scrooge at the party, failing to enjoy something which is deliberately written to be enjoyable. So it...
View ArticleReview: Five Tuesdays in Winter, Lily King
I always expect short stories to leave behind more of a mark than a full length novel. Perhaps because they are sheared clean of all excess, their message is bare-knuckled rather than gloved. With that...
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Review: Mrs Death Misses Death, Salena Godden
Opening with the disclaimer, ‘Spoiler alert: We will all die in the end’, poet Salena Godden’s debut novel packs quite the punch. It fascinated me how she noted in the early pages that ‘any book with...
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Review: Girlfriend on Mars, Deborah Willis
I’m not sure what I was expecting from Girlfriend on Mars but what I got was not it. The premise is that perpetually stoned Kevin is content going nowhere in Vancouver when Amber, his girlfriend of...
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Review: Ithaca, Claire North
Claire North has been one of my favourite authors of recent years but I was truly surprised to see her switch genres from speculative fantasy to Greek mythology. In fairness, she is not the first...
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Review: Yellowface, Rebecca F. Kuang
Every so often, I succumb to blogger fatigue. In fact, since having my children it is not even ‘every so often’. There are long weeks and even months where I barely sit down at my computer. I struggle...
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Review: I Have Some Questions For You, Rebecca Makkai
It was around a decade ago that I read Rebecca Makkai’s The Borrower and certain passages from the closing pages still resonate in my mind. Her clear belief in the power of books to shine a light in...
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Review: My Turn to Make the Tea, Monica Dickens
I think I may actually enjoy reading Monica Dickens more than I do her great-grandfather. I mean to say, I think she is easier reading. When one finishes a book by Charles, it is akin to completing a...
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