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My Best Books for 2025

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I did away with ‘top tens’ a few years ago, and instead I finish the reading year with a recap of the books that are still speaking to me (less about four and five-star ratings, more about what has stuck). Continue reading →

20 Books of Summer (except that it’s Winter)

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Annabel from AnnaBookbel and Emma from Words and Peace are hosting the 20 Books of Summer reading challenge this year. The challenge is straightforward – read the books between June 1st and August 31st. I reckon this is the most relaxed reading challenge you can participate in (swap books out, change your target, do whatever).
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Six Degrees of Separation – from Dangerous Liaisons to The House of Mirth

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It’s time for #6degrees. Start at the same place as other wonderful readers, add six books, and see where you end up.

This month we begin with Dangerous Liaisons by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos. Continue reading →

Perfume & Pain by Anna Dorn

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Every so often, I’m prompted to do a literature-adjacent project that (happily) sends me down rabbit holes. The podcast Once Upon a Time… at Bennington College started one, and this summer, Anna Dorn’s Perfume & Pain has started another. It’s a television-related rabbit hole.

It’s no secret that I have no standards when it comes television. Reality TV? Dish me up. True crime doco? Sure. SBS subtitled drama, seemingly filmed without lighting? Yep, I’ll watch that. I’m unapologetic about the fact that I will enjoy an episode of Love Island as much as Deutschland 83, and Succession as much as Derry Girls. I mention this because halfway through Perfume & Pain, I realised that I had to watch all six seasons of the 2004 drama series, The L Word, to grasp Dorn’s pop-culture-lesbian references. Continue reading →

A Year of Sample Saturdays – 2024 Edition

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I’ve read 108 Kindle samples this year – I reckon that downloading sample chapters is more prudent than impulse buying books that don’t quite pan out after the first few chapters. Continue reading →

Best Book Covers of 2024

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I’ve started work on the 2024 List of Lists and in doing so, I came across a list by Print Mag – the 2024 100 Best Book Covers.

Don’t judge, but I totally judge a book by its cover! After all, the cover is a book’s ‘elevator pitch’, right? Continue reading →