Faces in the Crowd by Feng Jicai , Translated by Olivia Milburn

I have had this book on my virtual shelf a while and was happy to finally get to it. I did not expect to enjoy it as much as I did! The author has a very simplistic style, and like the drawings that precede each short story, we are given caricatures of different people in…

The Book Club by Roisin Meaney

Still available to request on NetGalley The generic name and cover on this book do not do it justice. Or maybe in a strange way they do. One might go in expecting something good but not see the hit coming. If I haven't been clear with my opening, I loved the book.I started reading this…

The Woolly Hat Knitting Club by Poppy Dolan

Narrated by: Lizzie Wofford This was an unexpectedly splendid book. As my disclaimer at the end also announces, my review of this is obviously affected by my need to be involved in some personal craft project or the other. That said, this book should appeal to everyone because it provides a window into a world…

The Charlatan Murders (Elliott Bay Mystery #1) by Jennifer Berg

The book is still up for requesting on NetGalley There are those rare occasions when an impulse takes me to a book that I really enjoy! This book was not written by an author I previously knew, nor were there enough reviews on Goodreads to make up my mind. I still went ahead and read…

A Lady Eleanor Swift Mystery #6 #7 by Verity Bright

I have already read and reviewed another book in this series this year. I was lucky enough to pick up the next two, which got significantly better in terms of storytelling.I will discuss the two books individually. When I first started the series I had an issue with the lead protagonist. For someone who is…

All My Mothers by Joanna Glen

Another day with me using WordPress's monitoring as a crutch to sit down. To be fair I have had a tiring weekend and this is one way to keep me motivated. I am just glad it's working! P.S: Book is still available for request on NetGalley The plotline of this story is like any dual…

The Echo Chamber by John Boyne

I say this often enough, and most of the time, the emphasis is clear, but this time around, I need to iterate how that book should not have worked for me. For fear of sounding like one of the Cleverly family dissected within its pages, I wrote and deleted yet another sentence starting with 'I'.The…

The Icepick Surgeon by Sam Kean

The author of this book has a podcast; this is something that is iterated at multiple sections of the book. It felt odd to interrupt plotlines to redirect attention to a podcast, so it stuck with me this long after having listened to the book. I think his research probably has the capacity to become…