Tag: adult fiction

• Stunning Short Stories in Claire Keegan’s Walk the Blue Fields

  What’s better than a Claire Keegan story? Multiple Claire Keegan stories! Walk the Blue Fields was a library book request I made following Foster, a story I absolutely adored, and I am so happy to have more works of hers in hand. Both gut-wrenching and grand, these stories will transport you and throw you into…

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  November 28, 2025

  Contemporary Fiction, Poetry and Short Stories

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• Fredrik Backman’s And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer is a Good Pain

  Though small, And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer is a mighty read. It is gentle and caring, yet packs a tremendous punch, and you can feel every drop of humility, love, and patience in this incredibly heartfelt read. This book rec only came across my radar maybe a week or two…

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  November 26, 2025

  Contemporary Fiction, Poetry and Short Stories

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• Adrienne Young’s A Sea of Unspoken Things – As Good As Her Others?

  I fell in love with Spells for Forgetting, spent my nights kicking my feet over The Unmaking of June Farrow, but it seems that A Sea of Unspoken Things has left me wanting more. This adult contemporary fantasy, set in the beautiful Six Rivers, Northern California, it was hoping for more goodness from an author…

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  November 24, 2025

  adult fantasy, Contemporary Fiction

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• Alicia Thompson’s The Art of Catching Feelings Delivers Heartfelt Sports Romance Goodness

  The Art of Catching Feelings, a standalone sports romance by Alicia Thompson, is just the right balance of baseball, contemporary romance, working through personal trauma, and steamy romance. Romance isn’t set in a vacuum, and this novel encapsulates that idea exactly right with conflicts and interactions that are just as important in the story as…

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  November 5, 2025

  Contemporary Fiction, Romance

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• Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak – A Creepy Horror Must-Read

  I spotted this quite by chance, but given the spooky season is upon us, I added it to my library requests and got my hands on it yesterday. Then I read it in a few hours. Jason Rekulak’s Hidden Pictures is the perfect read in the lead up to Halloween. With the creepy pictures, strange…

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  October 25, 2025

  Crime Fiction, Horror

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• Adrienne Young’s Spells for Forgetting is Incredible

  Possibly my favourite read of Spooktober 2025, Adrienne Young’s Spells for Forgetting crept up on me, taking my easy weekend reading time to the next level with no breaks and an impatient need to get the answers I so desperately needed. The vibes are immaculate, marrying witchy fantasy eeriness with a small town (or, in…

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  October 13, 2025

  adult fantasy, Crime Fiction

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• Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin is an LGBT Classic

  This classic is powerful, mesmerising, and heartbreaking in so many ways. Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin is one of those short novels that fills the whole space, with life in every word and emotion seeping off the page. It is lyrical and intense and complex and impossible to ignore. It is rough, focusing on many…

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  September 24, 2025

  Classic Fiction, Poetry and Short Stories

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• The Classic and Unforgettable Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

  I have heard Franz Kafka’s praises be sung from dawn to dusk throughout my years on Tumblr and Pinterest, not to mention my English Literature degree pointing out his impact and influence across a great many decades. I hadn’t picked up any of his works though, and so here is where Metamorphosis enters the fray.…

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  September 20, 2025

  Classic Fiction, Foreign Lit, Poetry and Short Stories, science fiction

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• Let’s Talk About Ray Bradbury’s Dystopian Classic Fahrenheit 451

  Did you really think I wouldn’t pick up the classic book about books and media literacy? How could I pass up Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 when the opportunity to read scholarly classic academic literature arose? It it true I hadn’t read Fahrenheit 451 before now, and I have more than a few things to say…

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  September 13, 2025

  Classic Fiction

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• Emily Henry’s Great Big Beautiful Life is a Swing and a Miss For Me

  I had a feeling this might happen, but I was hoping I would be wrong. Alas, I have read Emily Henry’s recent novel Great Big Beautiful Life and been left feeling indifferent. This romance novel didn’t hit the mark for me, and even the other portion of this novel had me wishing for more. Alice…

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  August 19, 2025

  Contemporary Fiction, Romance

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