Brona's Books

I've been dragging my feet about writing (or finishing) off several reviews for books read a month ago. Part of the problem has been a...

My work has been a bit crazy this year. And during August and September it was hectic and full of changes. So a lot of the hype surroundi...

Reading Washington Black  by Esi Edugyan was like eating a big bag of sweets. Some were good, some not so good. And after gorging myself on ...

When I was in my twenties and thirties, my friends and I spent a lot of time discussing and dissecting each others dreams (#lifebeforesocial...

The first time I read The Blue Castle , I read it soooooooo fast that I recall very little of the detail. I had just found out about the con...

For four days I've been trying to write a review that would do this rich, engrossing, mosaic of a book due justice. It wasn't so m...

A whole swath of shortlists have been buzzing around the bookish world lately. Some have got me bibliograpically excited but some have...

Miss Moon is one of those delightful picture books for children, that's really for the grown-ups (and dogs) in their life! Full of si...

Earlier on in the year I attended an author event with Thuy and read Ru . I adored it. It was beautiful, heart-felt and poetic. Last week ...

I love it when I discover a new author that simply bowls me over with the beautiful simplicity of her story. Reading Thuy's (pronounced ...

L. M. Montgomery only wrote 2 adult novels. One of them was  The Blue Castle  published in 1926. I had never heard of it until last year w...

I'm not a huge graphic novel aficionado, but every now and again, one comes along that grabs my attention. Maybe it had something to d...

A Tale For the Time being is the book that has kicked off my Booker shortlist campaign for this year. And it nearly stopped me in my tracks...