The Cardiff Review Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Just You and the Page: Encounters with Twelve Writers
Sue GeeThe Cardiff ReviewSarah Tanburn reviews JUST YOU AND THE PAGE (@SerenBooks): "How these twelve writers transmute the mundane into storytelling gold is the real heart of this exploration of memory and friendship." #WritingCommnunity #BookReview https://t.co/5l7mAQYyJi https://t.co/e7Ym46z0KT
Paperback, 2021
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Mild Vertigo
Mieko KanaiThe Cardiff Review"The narrator of the Japanese writer, poet, and art critic Mieko Kanai’s 1997 novel is a housewife, and so when we first dip our toes into her stream of consciousness, it is her house that we find her ruminating about" https://t.co/ZfWTl9H7WK
Paperback, 2023
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A Lonely Man
Chris PowerThe Cardiff ReviewRead our interview with Chris Power, author of A LONELY MAN (@FaberBooks). https://t.co/oV5BAKDOik https://t.co/EAbxjvux4J
Paperback, 2022
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Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond Productivity Culture
Jenny OdellThe Cardiff ReviewSAVING TIME (@TheBodleyHead) by Jenny Odell (@the_jennitaur) reviewed by Vartika Rastogi: 🧵 https://t.co/g1ZLT2jQkO
Paperback, 2024
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Yellowface
R. F. KuangThe Cardiff ReviewVartika Rastogi reviews YELLOWFACE by R.F. Kuang: "at once a compulsively readable thriller and a biting satire that seeks to expose the knotty underbelly of the publishing industry as it stands today in the West." #amreading https://t.co/jlf3nFX74z
Hardcover, 2023
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The Owl House
Daniel ButlerThe Cardiff Review"Butler uses the language of a spiritual experience to describe his first sighting of a barn owl in summer twilight." Read Laura Eppinger's review of Daniel Butler's THE OWL HOUSE. https://t.co/niCVqBtxf2
Hardcover, 2020
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Love in the Big City
Sang Young ParkThe Cardiff Review"He was determined to translate it 'because no one had told this story before, and it was my story.'" Read @LisaTulfer's review of @TheBookerPrizes long-listed LOVE IN THE BIG CITY (@TiltedAxisPress) by @novelistpark and tr. by @AntonHur. #amreading https://t.co/brzC83IiIe
Paperback, 2022
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Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Olga TokarczukThe Cardiff Review"This was a strange, hypnotic book, in equal parts tender and unnerving." @hsmckelveygreen selects DRIVE YOUR PLOW OVER THE BONES OF THE DEAD by Olga Tokarczuk (@FitzcarraldoEds) as a top read of 2021. #amreading https://t.co/1eM8icjEBD
Paperback, 2020
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first bookMild Vertigo
Mieko KanaiThe Cardiff ReviewVartika Rastogi reviews MILD VERTIGO (@FitzcarraldoEditions) by Mieko Kanai, tr. by Polly Barton: "She is content to lead the life that has become her lot, happy to dwell in those moments of philosophical clarity that come to her at the kitchen island." https://t.co/tpElwYadog
Paperback, 2023
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The Veil Between Two Worlds: A Memoir of Silence, Loss, and Finding Home
Christina VoThe Cardiff Review"The Veil Between Two Worlds: A Memoir of Silence, Loss, and Finding Home is Vo’s memoir of personal, communal, and ancestral healing." https://t.co/7lNXdl1AlV
Paperback, 2023
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