Zara shopping spree
byCome springtime, and the milder weather outside, I couldn’t wait to shed all my thick trackpants and sneakers and get into something a little…
Reading
The Coast Road
byI always have a soft spot for books about friendships between three women. There is a predictability about the plot that’s very comforting –…
Watching/Listening
Project Hail Mary
byMovie in a nutshell Ryland Grace wakes up alone on a spaceship with no memory of who he is or how he got there….
Older posts
7.6 My Beloved Life
byMy Beloved Life had been sitting unread on my bookshelf ever since I finished We That Are Young. I’d got the two back-to-back, craving…
6.6 Second Life
byJust from the flimsy book synopsis alone, I should have realized there wasn’t much meat to this thriller. But I casually flipped through the…
8 The Marriage Portrait
byThe Marriage Portrait has been sitting unread on my shelf ever since I read the heartbreaking Hamnet. I knew this book was about a…
6.9 We That are Young
byWe That are Young is a modern-day King Lear set in India. The setup is a rich industrial dynasty in the style of the…
7.4 The English Teacher
byMy first book of 2026. I wanted something slow and literary that I could linger on through the holidays, and The English Teacher was…