Mining the Quiet: Twelve Poems by Tara G. Harris
Harris takes the bleakness of her landscape and makes it beautiful.
Harris takes the bleakness of her landscape and makes it beautiful.
The Immortal Woman is a densely packed novel focusing on generational trauma, loss of identity (self-inflicted and societally), and mental health…
The modern fairy tale is something that Leduc excels at, and Wild Life is no exception here.
O’Kell has woven an intriguing world, with alliances between powers, a seemingly delicate system of magic…
One of the privileges of getting to review for The Miramichi Reader is the opportunity to read some really very fascinating books. Obviously, since I’m pointing this out, Barbara by Joni Murphy is one of them.
There’s not much more you need to do to sell me on a book than to tell me it’s about figure skating.
March 8th is International Women’s Day! Here’s a reading list, picked by the editorial team at The Miramichi Reader, to help you celebrate and get you thinking. 💭
One Book, Two Reviews: The Unworthy by Agustina Bazterrica, translated by Sarah Moses
Songs for the Broken-Hearted by Ayelet Tsabari is a brilliantly complex family story, set amidst the ongoing Israel-Palestine conflict, and told by Yemeni Jews, a group which is both Jewish and Arabic, and suffers from a considerable amount of racism.
Perhaps you’re looking for a meaty academic text to sink your teeth into, and certainly Irrational Publics and the Fate of Democracy is meaty, and also a remarkably readable example of a philosophy and politics text.
December’s “Mystery Date Book” is from Penguin Random House!
I admire Purdham’s willingness to give voice to the ugly thoughts a lot of us have had about disability or other perceived differences — because we do have them.
This is a how-to-sail (if you do well in learning by reading, with no guiding pictures), a meditation on unexpected hobbies, and a toast to community. Wang’s love of sailing is infectious — truly, I’ve sailed maybe once in my life at this point, and I at least idly considered looking up yacht clubs near me to see if any of them worked in the same way Wang’s does.
November’s “Mystery Date Book” is from Penguin Random House