The power of a book is an awe inspiring thing. Good ones take you somewhere you may never have been, expose you to different ideas, let you walk in someone elses shoes. They surprise, delight and open the world. The best stay with you, leaving you a little changed.
This site is my way of reflecting on how some of the books I enjoy have made me think. It’s currently heavily reviews but expect that to change over time.
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My Reviews & Reflections
Find my most recent posts below
- I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacquline HarpmanAustere and unsettling but with hope.
- The Murmur of Bees by Sofía SegoviaA foundling child and the long shadow he casts over a Mexican town
- Station Eleven by Emily St. John MandelReflections of post apocolytic wanderers.
- West with Giraffes by Linda RutledgeA warm, quietly layered novel about journeys, memory, and what we choose to carry. This is historical fiction doing exactly what it should. Taking a small, curious fact and building something immersive and genuinely moving around it. “It is a foolish man who thinks stories do not matter when in the end, they may be …
- The Artificial Silk Girl by Irmgard KeunA young woman in 1930’s Berlin
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The power of a book is an awe inspiring thing. Good ones take you somewhere you may never have been, expose you to different ideas, let you walk in someone elses shoes. They surprise, delight and open the world. The best stay with you, leaving you a little changed. This site is my way of…