If there was a book symbolic of these pandemic times Readheads, it is this. The Shut Ins. Right now, I’m coming to you from day 100 (or is it 1,000?) of lockdown. My hair deserves it’s own instragram account it’s that laughable, I’ve officially entered middle-age by buying a chest freezer to save all the […]
Author Archives: Ms K
September
27
Every Night of The Week by Lucy Tweed
posted by Ms K
Yep I’m doing it Readheads. A cookbook review so get your stick blenders fired up. This book is a delicious beauty and I’m warning you now – what you’re about to read is part book review, part open love letter to Lucy Tweed. Since getting this in my mailbox, I’ve cooked my way through it […]
September
26
The Ripping Tree by Nikki Gemmell
posted by Ms K
Happy days Readheads. Nikki and I are friends again. We weren’t for a while after I read I TAKE YOU but we’ve made up over The Ripping Tree. Oh, the relief. What isn’t happy days though, is this book’s storyline. Oooph, it’s tough. Set in the years of Australia’s early settlement, you don’t need to […]
August
12
Redhead By The Side of The Road by Anne Tyler
posted by Ms K
Sometimes size does matter Readheads. This gem of a book is only 178 pages but it packs a punch. Anne Tyler is the master of minutiae and writes about the most mundane, repetitive aspects of our lives and drizzles them in honey and sunshine. Redhead By the Side of The Road doesn’t disappoint. It delivers […]
August
11
Nothing But Blue Sky by Kathleen MacMahon
posted by Ms K
I try to resist new books wallpapered with glowing reviews written by people I’ve never heard of. I’ve been burnt badly by this promotional hi-jinx so I judge these review-laden titles with skeptical side-eyes and immediately get a whiff of impending disappointment and regret. Not this time. I am happy (and damn relieved) to report […]
August
06
Animal by Lisa Taddeo
posted by Ms K
When I finished reading Animal I felt like I had been mauled by a dog. Not that I have ever been mauled by a dog mind you, so don’t know for sure, but I imagine you feel pretty shaken, raw, roughed up. Not quite yourself. Bits of you hanging off. That was me. If you […]
June
28
Olga by Bernhard Schlink
posted by Ms K
Well look at me go Readheads – two reviews in two days after weeks of silence. When it rains reviews Readheads, it pours. So let’s chat about Olga and let’s talk about Bernhard Schlink. I always love a bit of Bernhard and I had to go back to my 2017 review of his last book […]
June
28
Empire of Wild by Cherrie Dimaline
posted by Ms K
I have done A LOT of reading lately Readheads (and now we are back in lockdown, I suspect there’ll be even more. Oh praise be). Some I’ll blog about, some I won’t and not because I don’t like them. Simply they were either older books that tickled my fancy, or a memoir, and while they […]
April
29
Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue
posted by Ms K
COVID was an odd and powerful backdrop to read this one Readheads. As if reality wasn’t strange enough, I thought ‘hey, let’s not just be in a pandemic, let’s get stuck into a book about one too.’ I’m not really a sucker for punishment but I am a sucker for anything written by Emma Donoghue. […]
April
25
Kokomo by Victoria Hannan
posted by Ms K
Firstly, hello! Remember me? Ms K for those of you who don’t. I can’t blame you – it has been a hot minute. Reason? Nothing drastic, just work, life, work, bit more work and books. Lots of good books! I didn’t really know which one to review first. I even contemplated a group review – […]
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