The Travelling Cat Chronicles Book Review: A Journey That Stays With You Cats have a way of making themselves indispensable without appearing to try. They claim the most comfortable corner of the sofa, demand food at inconvenient hours, and behave as though sharing a home with us is a favor they’re doing us. Then, somewhere Read more…

The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry review: Finding family between the shelves Some novels announce their intentions with a dramatic opening. Others slip quietly into your life and make themselves at home. Gabrielle Zevin’s The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry belongs to the latter kind. It begins with an irritable bookseller on a Read more…

Remarkably Bright Creatures Book Review: Grief, Belonging and One Very Clever Octopus An elderly cleaner and a captive octopus hardly sound like the likeliest pair around which to build a novel. Yet that unusual friendship is precisely what gives Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt its charm. What begins as a gently eccentric story Read more…