Matt Reads Books

Matt Reads Books

(So many books…)

  • Matt’s Weekly Reads, March 25, 2023

    Matt’s Weekly Reads, March 25, 2023

    Spotlight: The Gospel according to Lazarus (aka The Lost Gospel of Lazarus) || Weekly Roundup: Tempest-Tost, Cinnamon & Gunpowder, One’s Company, Tin Man, Do I Know You?, A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World, The Invention of Hugo Cabret

    stufffromthestuff

    March 25, 2023
    Weekly Reads
    A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World, Cinnamon & Gunpowder, Do I Know You?, First-century Judaism, Jesus, Mysticism, One’s Company, Roman Empire, Tempest-Tost, The Gospel according to Lazarus, The Invention of Hugo Cabret, The Lost Gospel of Lazarus, Tin Man
  • My Bookish Hall of Fame: Introduction

    My Bookish Hall of Fame: Introduction

    My recent foray back into reading ‘classics’ has got me thinking a lot about what makes a book ‘good’. What are the criteria that make a book work for me as a reader, and how does that relate to a book’s overall quality and reputation? The more I thought about it, the more complicated it…

    stufffromthestuff

    March 22, 2023
    Bookish Hall of Fame
    Bookish Hall of Fame
  • Matt’s Weekly Reads, March 18, 2023

    Matt’s Weekly Reads, March 18, 2023

    Spotlight: Galore || Weekly Roundup: The Manticore, World of Wonders, Funny You Should Ask, The Tempest, Earth’s the Right Place for Love, Gathering Blue, Lumberjanes

    stufffromthestuff

    March 18, 2023
    Weekly Reads
    Atlantic Fishing Trade, Complicated Families, Galore, Multi-generational epics, Newfoundland, small towns
  • Matt’s Weekly Reads, March 11, 2023

    Matt’s Weekly Reads, March 11, 2023

    Spotlight: Fifth Business || Weekly Roundup: Dubliners, Late Nights on Air, Well Traveled, The Long Run, Chef’s Kiss, Autobiography of Red, Little House in the Big Woods

    stufffromthestuff

    March 11, 2023
    Weekly Reads
    Autobiography of Red, Canadian Literature, Chef’s Kiss, Depth Psychology, Dubliners, Fifth Business, Hagiography, Late Nights on Air, Little House in the Big Woods, Magic and Illusion, The Long Run, Twentieth Century History, Well Traveled
  • Matt’s Weekly Reads, March 4, 2023

    Matt’s Weekly Reads, March 4, 2023

    Spotlight Beartown (Beartown 1) Fredrik Backman (2016, trans. 2017) Beartown is a remote village in Sweden with a depressed economy and even more depressed spirit among its strong and hard, tight-lipped and stoic residents. The community can be forgiven, then, if it cares a little too much about its youth hockey team — which finally…

    stufffromthestuff

    March 4, 2023
    Weekly Reads
    Athletics and Sports, Beartown, Belonging, Hockey, Hollow, Holly Jolly Diwali, Loyalty, small towns, Something Wilder, Sweden, The Penderwicks, The Pursuit of Love, The Thirty-Nine Steps, Tuck Everlasting
  • Bookish Pairs: The Catcher in the Rye and The Fall

    Bookish Pairs: The Catcher in the Rye and The Fall

    This year I’ve been making a concerted effort to read more classics. And the other week, I happened, quite unintentionally, to read J.D. Salinger’s much loved-and-loathed The Catcher in the Rye (1951) and Albert Camus’ existentialist classic The Fall (published in French in 1956 as La Chute, and published in English translation the following year)…

    stufffromthestuff

    February 28, 2023
    Bookish Thoughts
  • Matt’s Weekly Reads, February 25, 2023

    Matt’s Weekly Reads, February 25, 2023

    Spotlight: The Woman Next Door || Weekly Roundup: All the Way Happy, Zorrie, The Catcher in the Rye, The Fall, You & I Rewritten, Better than Fiction, Hatchet

    stufffromthestuff

    February 25, 2023
    Weekly Reads
    Aging, All the Way Happy, Better than Fiction, Curmudgeons, Hatchet, Mature Protagonists, Race Relations, Social Change, South Africa, The Catcher in the Rye, The Fall, The Woman Next Door, You & I Rewritten, Zorrie
  • Bookish Thoughts: On Reading Classics

    Bookish Thoughts: On Reading Classics

    As 2022 was winding down, I found myself in a plight shared by many readers. It’s a bookish version of the ‘tyranny of the immediate.’ Namely I found myself reading almost exclusively new or recent releases. This is the problem with being present in the bookish world. Seeking out reviews, blogs, podcasts, and social media…

    stufffromthestuff

    February 20, 2023
    Bookish Thoughts
    classics, literature canon
  • Matt’s Weekly Reads, February 18, 2023

    Matt’s Weekly Reads, February 18, 2023

    Spotlight: How High We Go in the Dark || Weekly Roundup: When You Reach Me, The Call of the Wild, Punch Me Up to the Gods, When We Were Very Young, Because of Winn-Dixie, Big Kids, Bear

    stufffromthestuff

    February 18, 2023
    Weekly Reads
    Bear, Because of Winn-Dixie, Big Kids, climate change, Dystopias, Family, grief and loss, How High We Go in the Dark, pandemic literature, Punch Me Up to the Gods, science fiction, The Call of the Wild, When We Were Very Young, When You Reach Me
  • From the Backlist: Girl, Woman, Other

    From the Backlist: Girl, Woman, Other

    Girl, Woman, Other, Bernardine Evaristo (2019) In Bernardine Evaristo’s Booker Prize winning Girl, Woman, Other, we are introduced to twelve different, loosely connected, British Black women living twelve very different lives: A radical feminist playwright finds herself disappointed by her daughter’s less zealous attitude towards gender; a rural English woman is shocked to discover she…

    stufffromthestuff

    February 15, 2023
    From the Backlist
    Black British culture, Black Diaspora, Feminism, Girl Woman Other, Identity, Intersectionality, Power
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