Was also reading Bad Taste by Nathalie Olah around the same time. Talking about taste in relation to homes, fashion, beauty, food and leisure some chapters were stronger than others. Particularly enjoyed the dives into the Sapranos, the Talented Mr Ripley, Wuthering Heights, etc.

Really, really enjoyed these three novellas in The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster and the overlapping of themes, motifs. A bit off-kilter, lots of intrigue. I was hooked!

Sunday reading plans #booksky

Loved being back in the world of Dallyangle for Nat Reeve’s sequel to Nettleblack. Although I initially mourned the loss of Henry’s voice, I ended up really enjoying Pip and Cassandra’s points of view. Very good fun!

Naomi Booth’s Raw Content was an all-consuming deep-dive into one woman’s unexpected journey into motherhood. The possibility of violence intrudes on Grace’s thoughts, inbuilt from a childhood of warnings from her police officer father, from the fact of her being a girl. Loved it. Out in March.

I read Claire Messud’s This Strange Eventful History over winter break and found it so compelling (couldn’t put it down). Thanks @littlebrownbooks.bsky.social via Netgalley for the review copy. You can read my full thoughts on Instagram here: www.instagram.com/p/DEueaITsuH...

First poetry collection this year, The Illustrated Woman by Helen Mort. Fascinated by the poems on tattooing/attitudes towards females with tattoos. The poem detailing the experience of her image being used in a deep fake video was so moving and powerful. #poetry

I really enjoyed Joanna Biggs’ personal essays on Mary Wollstonecraft, George Eliot, Zora Neale Hurston, Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath, Toni Morrison and Elena Ferrante. I appreciated Biggs’ vulnerability in sharing parts of herself and why these authors mean so much to her ✨

Sharing my thoughts on each book I read this year and first up is Miriam Toews’ A Complicated Kindness. Although I feel like Toews’ writes similar variations of rebellious female characters I can’t help but fall in love with them. My heart broke for Nomi and Ray (and Trudie and Tash) 💔 #booksky

It was a beautiful sunny day to finally visit Hebden Bridge (have been wanting to visit ever since reading @junodawson.bsky.social ‘s Her Majesty’s Royal Coven) 🩷 #booksky #bookishsky

And that’s a wrap on 2024, thanks @thestorygraph.com for the brilliant graphics 🤩 some of my favourite reads include Sally Rooney’s Intermezzo, Ia Genberg’s The Details, Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon & Louise Erdrich’s The Round House #booksky #bookishsky

Had no idea It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over was about zombies until after I bought it (drawn in by the title and the fact that it’s a @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social publication - they can do no wrong). Usually hate anything with zombies but this was such a stunning, poetic and beautiful debut 💙

Hi #booksky here are some good-to-know things about me:

✨ I’m a former English teacher who now works in a library.
✨ I love reading literary fiction, nonfiction and poetry.
✨ I’m trying to get back into writing reviews on my Instagram: www.instagram.com/yasminerosereads