weekend reading | a quiet reading spree

This is my first 'informal' post since returning to blogging. Going into depth on where I've been boils down to 'I was finishing my undergrad, then doing an internship, then starting a master's degree and working part-time'; in other words, I was really busy, and I made the decision to let my blog sit for …

exploring ‘moon song’ by phoebe bridgers

If you love me, you don't love me in a way that I understand. Richard Siken Phoebe Bridgers is an artist I've been aware of for some time, but never gelled with. The supergroup boygenius - comprised of Bridgers, Lucy Dacus, and Julien Baker - is a favourite ('Bite the Hand' is incredible), and while …

book review | the doll’s alphabet by camilla grudova

Camilla Grudova’s The Doll’s Alphabet is an excellent collection. Interacting with similar motifs and themes across the thirteen stories, she demonstrates just how far you can stretch a concept and still have it work. Dystopian settings, feminist revolutions, strange births, sewing machines – each story is rendered beautifully by Grudova’s prose. Readers are kept close …

book review | record of a night too brief and people from my neighbourhood by hiromi kawakami

Hiromi Kawakami’s shorter fiction is just as promising as her long-form works. Hallucinatory, and simultaneously heart-breaking and tongue-in-cheek, both collections are expertly translated by Ted Goossen and Lucy North (Neighbourhood and Record, respectively). In the titular novella in Record of a Night Too Brief, Kawakami chronicles the life cycle of a woman in a world …

recommendations | women in translation month 2020 & a tbr

as i have begun reading more literary fiction, i've been finding out about more and more areas of publishing that have been under a lot of scrutiny. in particular, the fact that there is a massive gap in foreign works written by women in languages other than english not being translated and released at the …

recommendations | if you like this, you might like this #2

the first post i did in this vein was way way back in october of 2018, so i figured it was about time i do another one! i've read a helluva lot since 2018, figured out some tropes and themes i enjoy in what i read, so i have a lot more to recommend. 1: …

book review | strange weather in tokyo by hiromi kawakami

strange weather in tokyo by hiromi kawakami hiromi kawakami's strange weather in tokyo is a novel that packs a punch. we follow tsukiko, a 38 year old woman who works in an office and lives alone, after she reunites with one of her former high school teachers, a man she still refers to as 'sensei', …

book haul | summer 2020

said in march i would stop buying so many books. bought 75 physical books, more ebooks, and asked for more netgalley arcs than i can possibly hope to get through since. no comment. physical books the melancholy death of oyster boy by tim burton 🍎queenie by candice carty-williams 🍎a good girl's guide to murder/good girl, …

three thriller reviews | lock every door, night film, eight perfect murders

lock every door by riley sager riley sager's lock every door is one of the two thrillers published in 2019 that i constantly mistake for one another: the other is the turn of the key by ruth ware. i only confused them thanks to their similar covers, and the fact that both follow a woman …

2020 | march wrap up

I had a very good reading month in March. A majority were horror reads, which was perfect. I'm really enjoying horror at the moment, and I am riding that wave for as long as it goes! Also... I know this is a month late. But I was playing Stardew. For basically all of April. Wilder Girls by Rory Power 🍎🍎🍎🍎 …