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Books, cats, coffee, & nature
Come for the books, stay for the sarcasm.
#bookprizejunkie #naturelover #catsofinstagram #bookstagram #librarylife

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Coffee & Book Challenge☕️

☕️Espresso- a quick read : Moi qui n’ai pas connu les hommes – Jacqueline Harpman

☕️cappuccino- a thick book : Babel – R.F. Kuang

☕️latte- a sweet read : The Guncle – Steven Rowley

☕️mocha- an emotional read : Intermezzo – Sally Rooney

☕️macchiato- a favorite book : Kindred – Octavia E. Butler

I’ve tagged a few people but feel free to participate if you see this ☺️

#bookstagramuk #bookchallenge #RFKuang #sallyrooney #frenchreader

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Yesteryear

By Caro Claire Burke

Natalie is a tradwife influencer who lives on a ranch with her kids, her conservative cowboy husband Caleb and her army of nannies who do the dirty work behind the scenes. She is living the blissful life she has always aspired to live. Until one day she wakes up in a horrid reality, where her husband, her children and her house are all familiar yet not quite the same—she has woken up in the 18th century.🚜

This book is the sensation of 2026 and I was waiting to get my paws onto it. As goes with most satire, it is a polarising read. Natalie and Caleb are not particularly likeable and that can be an issue for some readers. But I devoured this book. As a dystopian thriller, this is a complete page turner. Themes of modern day feminism and agency are dispersed throughout this book and they all came together really well for me. 👩‍🌾

I think every little detail in this novel is meticulously inserted and holds value. No character is moral or upstanding but that’s ok, because that’s how it works with real life people as well. Considering it’s a debut novel, Burke has done a stellar job with the world building🤰🏻

For a world that is getting rapidly radicalised, I would highly recommend this read! One of my favourites of the year!

My rating: 5⭐️/5⭐️

Chicken fajitas made by me! 🌮

#yesteryear #caroclaireburke #bookstagram #booksbooksbooks #bookrecs

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Have a lovely start of September! ⛈️🍂
Here‘s #autumnloverstag 🍄

🧣Sweater weather: favourite autumn tv show
You
Chilling adventures of Sabrina
The umbrella academy

🎃Pumpkin spice: favourite autumn drink
I adore different types of tea and glühwein!

🧺Fall harvest: top books on tbr
I’ve already finished ‘And then there were none’ by Agatha Christie and going to reread ‘Halloween party’ in October/November
‘Don’t breathe a word’ - Jennifer McMahon
‘The Makioka Sisters’ - Jun’ichirō Tanizaki
‘Convenience store woman’ - Sayaka Murata
And some of Akutagawa’s short stories

🥧Apple pie: cozy read
Defending Jacob
Hunting Jack the Ripper
Fathers and sons
Little women

🍁Autumn leaves: top autumn book recs
Embassy of the dead
The phantom of the opera
Six of crows
Frankenstein
A good girl’s guide to murder

👻Autumn favourites:
Red and orange maple leaves
Comfy blanket
Watching birds flying away
Humidity & thick fog
Pumpkin soup

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📣 Sunday Shoutouts 📣

More amazing accounts to follow if you aren’t already! 🇨🇦

What are your plans for today? Hopefully it involves some reading. I need to finish Mad Mabel today! 😉

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I’m late again. May brought many new authors to me (Mackintosh, Tim Winton, Patchett — yes, I was a Patchett virgin before May 😱), prize winners and nominees (Booker and IPAF), and the return to other fantastic writers (Ernaux, King, Smith). I read two collections of short stories for May’s Short Story Month (Reservoir Bitches and Five Tuesdays in Winter), both were fantastic.

-Days of Love and Rage by Anand Gopal
-Floodlines by Saleem Haddad
-Five Tuesdays in Winter by Lily King
-The Promise by Damien Galgut
-The Fountain by Casey Scieszka
-Reservoir Bitches by Dahlia de la Cerda
-Strangers by Belle Burden
-A Mask the Color of the Sky by Basem Khandakji
-The Shock of the Light by Lori Inglis Hall
-The Witch by Marie NDiaye
-The Echoes by Evie Wyld
-All Them Dogs by Djamel White
-Gliff by Ali Smith
-The Riders by Tim Winton
-A Flower Traveled in My Blood by Haley Cohen Gilliland
-The Water Cure by Sophie Mackintosh
-Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
-Exteriors by Annie Ernaux

All my gratitude to the wonderful humans who sent me recommendations this month, whether through messages or fantastic book reviews. Please keep the recommendations coming!

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My family spoiled me. They took me to a bookstore, and let me loose for Mother’s Day. 😍

📖 Transcription by Ben Lerner
📖 Parade by Rachel Cusk
📖 Theatre by Maugham
📖 The Empusium by Olga Tokarczuk
📖 Nemesis by Philip Roth
📖 People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks

A big thanks to @BikeTrailBooks for having an incredible selection. If you’re ever in the Cincinnati area, don’t forget to stop by!

Happy belated Mother’s Day to all of you incredible reading mommas who inspire me each day. 💗

If you’ve read any of these, please tell me where to start!

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A woman jailed twice for writing a book. First, arrested without charge, and again after publication, for daring to put women’s sexuality on the page. That book is Women Without Men by Shahrnush Parsipur, and it is fantastic.

What became a single novel began as three separately published stories. After Parsipur was released from her first prison stint in 1980, she decided to weave the stories together, adding two new narratives to tie it all together. Published in 1989, it landed her back in prison almost immediately.

The novel follows five women in Tehran during the 1953 coup, each carrying a different wound from a society that controls and punishes female desire. Munis, killed by her controlling brother, continues to narrate after death. Faezeh, deeply pious, is shattered by rape. Zarrinkolah, a sex worker who begins to see her clients as headless, escapes. Mahdokht, so terrified of sex, transforms literally into a tree. And Farrokhlaqa, a wealthy housewife who quietly buys a garden outside the city and builds something new within it. They converge in that garden, carving out a fragile and temporary refuge from marriage, shame, and male control.

Parsipur layers this all in magical realism, making the surreal feel inevitable, and the political feel intimate. It was banned in Iran almost immediately after publication and has remained so for over three decades. But it circulated anyway, passed between women in secret through underground networks, until it found its way to the wife of an Islamic Republic official (who declared it anti-Islamic due to Parsipur’s frank treatment of virginity). That was enough to send Parsipur back to prison.

Next up for me is her prison memoir: Kissing the Sword. In it, she covers the almost five years of her first incarceration in post-revolutionary Tehran, where she was jailed after guards discovered an unsent letter expressing her private feelings about the political situation. It’s billed as a portrait of life inside the prison walls and is a testament to the integrity and courage of this remarkable woman.

Have you read it yet? What did you think of it?

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We’re honored to see readers sharing Nobody’s Girl, Virginia Roberts Giuffre’s extraordinary story of survival and strength. As momentum grows around Virginia’s Law, which seeks to remove statute of limitations limits for survivors, her legacy continues to empower others to speak, to heal, and to seek justice on their own terms. Her story is a reminder that healing is not linear, justice should not expire, and speaking out can transform not only one life, but many.

📸 Readers tagged in carousel
🪡 Stitched words by @tinypricksproject

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#NobodysGirl
#VirginiaRobertsGiuffre
#ABorzoiBook

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Finally got around to returning my overdue books. Here’s today’s haul!

What have you picked up from a library recently?
Tagging a few familiar faces😊

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Happy Halloween!! Hope you’re well equipped to cope with the sugar rush

Here is a treat in the form of a cracking recommendation!

Have you read this one? What is your Halloween rec for this year?

#halloweenbooks #trickortreating

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The Emperor of Gladness - Ocean Vuong

“Because to remember is to fill the present with the past, which meant that the cost of remembering anything, anything at all, is life itself. We murder ourselves, he thought, by remembering”

While reading, I felt as though I’d locked myself away in a quiet cabin in the woods, completely absorbed. This could not have been more different in style from his first novel and yet, it was unmistakably Ocean.

If On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous was a potent elixir, distilled over and over again until every drop was charged with meaning, this new work is a balm: gentle, tender, soothing, offering warmth and coolness without ever pretending to erase the pain. It is nuanced, deeply insightful, and quietly powerful. Love, loss, companionship, and memory flow beneath the surface like undercurrents. The book takes more than it gives. The familiar moments of catharsis or revelation are held back; instead, we are invited to find beauty in the ordinary. To simply be okay, and to remain so within a crumbling, racist, and greedy capitalist system is, in itself, an act of defiance.

The motley crew at HomeMarket is full of depth and quiet resilience. Each carries the scars of a system that has pushed them aside, yet they refuse to be defined by their pasts. They give more than they take, understand the power of a warm meal, and know that dignity is a right not a privilege that circumstance can strip away. They orbit one another through the day, discovering something new with each revolution, until at the centre of Hai’s universe a new sun rises, an 82-year-old Lithuanian woman named Grazina. Together, they rescue one another countless times, their bond deepening into something profoundly redemptive.

This book in many ways is younger than his previous works. It’s closer to who Ocean is as a person. It’s armed with humour, punk energy, and a grunge-like defiance. It handles difficult truths with a light, almost playful touch. Urbane yet tender, it explores Hai’s own constellation, the one he was born into and how his pattern fits into the vastness of others.

It’s easily one of my best reads of the year. Have you found yours?

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📚Shortlist thoughts 📚
Well 4:30am is a little early in Sydney to be watching the Booker Prize live stream, but I've gone for a walk, poured a cup of tea and caught up on all the goings on.
I love the celebrations when a loved book gets the recognition it deserves (Audition), as well as the shock and horror of favourites missing out (Endling, Seascraper) and/ or reviled books sneaking on (Time of Our Lives). And they say reading is a solitary hobby - well not when you're in the world's biggest book club as we are!
I thought Audition was incredible, I'm really happy to see it on the shortlist and I think it would be a worthy winner.
I thought Flashlight was really well written and glad to see it on the shortlist too.
Although I didn't love Endling, I appreciated it and can see why peeps are disappointed it didn't make the cut.
I still have Land in Winter to read which I will certainly do before the winner is announced, and although Universality and Seascraper didn't make it I think they would still be very much worth a read and I'm looking forward to both immensely.
As for those that DID make it, but aren't on my personal list?
Well I know Flesh is a favourite with many but I intensely disliked All That Man Is from several years ago and from what I've read the main protagonist would do my head in, so I've no intention to read that one-- even if it wins! Let the vitriol begin! 🙈
The commentary around Rest of Our Lives making the short list is so entertaining I think that's probably of more interest than the actual book (am I right @bookpimp ?)
Sonia and Sonny sounds good, and would be happy to get my hands on a copy, but I personally wish all eligible books were released before the shortlist. But that's another story....
Please feel free to share your thoughts and comparisons. (Just don't hate on me too hard about Flesh and hurt my feelings lol)

#bookstagram #bookstagramreadsthebooker #bookerprize #bookershortlist

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