Castles Galore in North Wales
byNorth Wales is a scenic place – full of the most beautiful countryside – mountains, valleys, and an amazing coastline. But what anchors it…
Reading
Heartstopper: Volume One
byI’ve been reading graphic novels in between longer, denser reads to break up the momentum a bit, and also to give my brain a…
Watching/Listening
The Staircase
byI am not too fond of true crime – it gets me too bogged down in negative thoughts and weighs heavily on me weeks…
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…