Three short reviews of a book about George Orwell's wife, a Japanese classic from the early 20th century, and a novel about drug addicts living in Western Australia.

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22.12.2024

‘Imminence’ by Mariana Dimópulos (translated by Alice Whitmore) – Reading Matters

Fiction - paperback; Giramondo; 176 pages; 2019. Translated from the Spanish by Alice Whitmore. Imminence, by Mariana Dimópulos, is the story of a first-time mother grappling with her lifelong emotional detachment, a challenge that intensifies when she brings her baby home. It was originally published in 2014 in Argentina as Pendiente and translated from Spanish into…

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24.12.2024

‘Open Water’ by Caleb Azumah Nelson – Reading Matters

Fiction - hardcover; Viking; 160 pages; 2021. Do you sometimes pick up a book and get so completely swept away by the story that you lose all sense of time? That happened to me when I read Open Water, by British-Ghanian writer Caleb Azumah Nelson, a novella I had picked up by chance at my…

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24.12.2024

New questions for Triple Choice Tuesday — and you’re invited to answer them! – Reading Matters

For your chance to be featured, please fill in the form to tell me about a favourite book from childhood, a book that made you laugh or cry, and a book you have read more than once.

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3 short reviews of eclectic reads: Anna Funder, Alan Fyfe & Natsume Sōseki – Reading Matters

‘Imminence’ by Mariana Dimópulos (translated by Alice Whitmore) – Reading Matters

‘Open Water’ by Caleb Azumah Nelson – Reading Matters

New questions for Triple Choice Tuesday — and you’re invited to answer them! – Reading Matters

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