Just catching up on posting my reads for the year. The Reckoning (The Welsh Princes) by Sharon Penman From Storygraph: His father’s words haunt Llewelyn ap Gruffydd, Prince of Wales, who has been ruling uneasily over his fractious countrymen. Above all else, Llewelyn fears that his life and his own dream–of an independent, united Wales–might…

I haven’t rounded up any of the books I’ve read since January so this will be the first of two posts to catchup. Christopraxis: A Practical Theology of the Cross by Andrew Root Description from Storygraph: Finding practical theology not always able to present frameworks for understanding concrete and lived experience with divine action, Andrew…

The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper by Roland Allen From Goodreads: We see notebooks everywhere we go. But where did this simple invention come from? How did they revolutionise our lives, and why are they such powerful tools for creativity? And how can using a notebook help you change the way you think?…

I’ve got quite behind with my book posts, but October (due to travel) and November (due to NaBloPoMo) were low-reading months for me, so I’m going to do one post for the last four months of the year. The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley From Goodreads: In the near future, a civil servant is…

It’s nearly the end of November, and I’m just getting around to reviewing the books I read in August. Time Shelter – Georgo Gosdopinov From Goodreads: In Time Shelter, an enigmatic flâneur named Gaustine opens a ‘clinic for the past’ that offers a promising treatment for Alzheimer’s sufferers: each floor reproduces a decade in minute…

In August I posted about some of my renewal adjacent reading in July. It’s now almost the end of September, and I’m just now getting round to posting about the rest of July’s books. Better late than never I guess? Fourth Wing – Rebecca Yarros This is a fantasy romance. It’s not that original—love triangle…

The Paris Apartment – Lucy Foley I’m getting in some Paris-themed reading before I head there in September. Lucy travels to Paris to stay with her brother in a fancy apartment block, but when she arrives, he is nowhere to be found. The apartments are occupied by an collection of pretty awful people who all…

So it is almost July and I’m just getting round to reviewing the books I read in May. Too Much Lip – Melissa Lucashenko Winner of the 2019 Miles Franklin Award. Kerry Salter, an aboriginal woman, comes home from Queensland to her family in northern NSW on a stolen motorbike, thinking it will be a…