I have more or less neglected this blog, and more than once was even tempted to delete it completely. Though I am still reading books and can’t leave the house because of the pandemic, I have been pretty busy with work and don’t have a lot of time to blog. I did not “review” any…
Getting one last review done before the year ends! Actually, it’s a review of three books – N.K. Jemisin‘s Broken Earth Trilogy, which is made up of The Fifth Season (2015), followed by The Obelisk Gate (2016), and finally The Stone Sky (2017). I first started reading the series in August, got through The Fifth…
When Ernest Hemingway was 19 years old, he signed up as a volunteer with the American Red Cross which was looking for ambulance drivers to send to the Italian front during World War I. Having just graduated from high school, it was his first time to travel abroad. He was hungry for adventure and eager…
I honestly didn’t think I’d be able to post a Book Loot article this month because it wasn’t until the last days of June that I actually bought any. A meager 2 books for the whole month, and I didn’t even notice – wow, I must really be in a rut. So, what did I…
Back in January, I was confident that I could accomplish my reading goal of 50 books this year. Up until February, I was doing pretty well – I was even ahead, according to the Goodreads Reading Challenge tracker. Come March though, my reading slowed down, partly because I participated in a group reading of Middlemarch. After…
If you’ve been following my blog or have read more than a few articles on here, then you may know that I’m not one for biographies or memoirs. The number of biographies/memoirs I’ve read to date is probably less than five. However, sometimes, I come across a memoir or autobiography so intriguing that I can’t…
I’m not a big fan of Jose Saramago, and I don’t usually read memoirs / autobiographies / biographies, so imagine my surprise when, after seeing a copy of his memoirs Small Memories, and browsing through it, I was drawn into it, and afterwards really enjoyed it. I’ll admit that before Small Memories, I have never successfully read…
When you’ve read a particular author’s oeuvre (or most of it), do you tend to favor the very first book you read? I’ve been thinking about this for some time, and I think that in my case, my “first encounter novel” of a particular writer is usually the one I end up liking most. I…
Recently I’ve been seeing a lot of lists of the best chunksters, or novels that are quite long. While looking at my list of read books, I noticed that I’ve read my fair share of door stoppers and that most of them are actually on my “best” list. So, I decided to make my own…
A Handmaid’s Tale is another book I know I should have read ages ago. I remember vaguely seeing the movie and thinking at the time that it was really strange. Of course, at the time I didn’t know it was a novel. It wasn’t until later when I kept seeing it on Top Sci-fi/Fantasy novel…
The Misanthropologist 