Welcome to our blog posts! This is a space where you can check out what we’re currently reading, our hottest takes on literary trends, and even some reviews!
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Currently Reading
Julia I’ve started the New Year with a ski holiday in the French Alps with my family, and the journey to the mountains started with a 6 hour train ride — needless to say, I got some reading in! On the train, I decided to continue with ‘Love of Fat Men’, a short story collection
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Ayesha I just finished “The Little Sparrow Murders” by Seishi Yokomizo and I can’t wait to read more mysteries by this author! I’m no stranger to Japanese translated reads but this may be the first murder mystery. I bought this over the summer in England and I was pulled in by the cover while pursuing
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Currently Reading
Julia Having posted a continuous string of ‘Currently Readings’ over the past number of weeks now, it might seem like I’m an extremely productive reader, that I read books cover to cover every week, that I am a book reading machine! Mais hélas, dear reader, if I let you think that, it would simply be
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Ayesha Last night I started “Dancers of the Dawn” by Zulekhá Afzal and I read almost 100 pages in one sitting. Safe to say that I could’ve kept reading but I realized that I needed to pause for the night. I love staying up to finish a read but we really needed to focus on
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Currently Reading
Julia For a bit of a change from my usual programming, though I hope it becomes a more regular fixture in my life, I am reading a book in French which is ‘Le Paris des Merveilles: l’élixir d’oubli’ (the forgetting elixir), by Pierre Pevel that is part of the ‘Le Paris de Merveilles’ set that