The Reading Garden
Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman
The thing with this book is that Elio’s thought pattern is so familiar that it is a bit of a put-off. I have never found myself looking at my behaviour in such a mirror. Being able to read about thought…
The cat who saved books by Sōsuke Natsukawa
In the past, I have talked about the consumerism of books and seen it online in essays and video essays. This book is all that discourse in one helpful book, brought with so much fun that even people who aren’t…
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
“I will never leave him. It will be this, always, for as long as he will let me.” My decision to buy this may have been a combination of seeing a lot of people reading this book, paired with my…
Good Girl, Bad Blood by Holly Jackson
I did really enjoy Good Girl’s Guide To Murder, although it was very YA. I did want to give the rest of the series a go as I felt it would be an enjoyable read. The book in shortPip is…
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
Books that are originally written in another language usually have so much of the culture of that country within their pages. I think this is the best part of reading internationally. This book did not disappoint in this aspect. You…
Two can keep a secret by Karen M. McManus
I would love to know how I have managed to think I read this series out of order without noticing when I realised that within my box set were just two books that are a duet and two other stories.…
