The Constant Reader

Archive

January 2023

Review: The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman
Review: The Blue Salt Road by Joanne Harris
Review: A Quiet Life by Ethan Joella

December 2022

Review: Home for Christmas by Courtney Cole
Review: Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry
Bookish Stuff: Advent calendar books

November 2022

Review: Amelia Unabridged by Ashley Schumacher
Bookish Stuff: Bookshelf Tourism

October 2022

Review: The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna
Review: The Ghost Woods by C.J. Cooke
Review: The Watchers by A.M. Shine
Review: Fairy Tale by Stephen King

September 2022

Bookish Stuff: Reading Retreats - Do it at Home Version
Review: Pages & Co 5 by Anna James
Review: The People on Platform 5 by Clare Pooley
Review: The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean

AUGUST 2022 - summer hiatus

July 2022

Review: Hex by Jenni Fagan
Review: An Island Wedding by Jenny Colgan
Review: The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
Review: True Biz by Sara Novic

June 2022

Review: All the Murmuring Bones by A.G. Slatter
Review: A Place to Hang the Moon by Kate Albus
Review: Book Lovers by Emily Henry
Review: The Mad Women's Ball by Victoria Mas

May 2022

Review: Scritch Scratch by Lindsay Currie
Bookish Stuff: Bookshop Tourism
Review: Bookshop Tours of Britain by Louise Bolan

April 2022

Review: The Book of Cold Cases by Simone St. James
Review: Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnis Garmus
Review: The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward
Review: Gallant by V.E. Schwab

March 2022

Review: A Thousand  Mornings by Mary Oliver
Review: The Mother-Daughter Book Club by Heather Vogel Frederick

February 2022

Review: Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson
Bookish Stuff: How to Motivate your Kid to Read
Review: The Paris Bookseller by Kerri Maher

January 2022

Review: Our Lady of Mysterious Ailments by T.L. Huchu
Review: The Authenticity Project by Clare Pooley
Review: Wintering by Katherine May
Review: Christmas by the Book by Anne Marie Ryan

December 2021

Review: The Nesting by C.J. Cooke
Bookish Stuff: Christmas books
Review: The Haunting Season by Bridget Collins et al. 

November 2021

Review: The Cat Who Saved Books by Sosuke Natsukawa
Review: The Bookshop of Dust and Dreams by Mindy Thompson
Bookish Stuff: Hectic times and the classics
Review: The Christmas Bookshop by Jenny Colgan

October 2021

Review: The Book of Accidents by Chuck Wendig
Bookish Stuff: Bookish Autumn
Review: The Lighthouse Witches by C.J. Cooke
Review: Pages and Co - The Book Smugglers by Anna James

September 2021

Review: Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead
Review: Burden Falls by Kat Ellis
Review: The Hollow Places by T. Kingfisher
Bookish Stuff: Falling into Fall

August 2021

Review: Billy Summers by Stephen King
Review: Beach Read by Emily Henry
Review: The Light between Oceans by M.L. Stedman

July 2021

Review: The Asylum by Karen Cross
Review: The Bookshop of Second Chances by Jackie Fraser
Review: Wild by Kristin Hannah

JUNE 2021

Bookish Stuff: Books and Pets
Review: Monster, She Wrote by Lisa Kröger and Melanie R. Anderson
Review: The Wolf and the Woodsman by Ava Reid
Bookish Stuff: Hit by the Reading Slump

May 2021

Review: The Maidens by Ales Michaelides
Review: Mrs Death Misses Death by Salena Godden
Review: The Bookstore on the Beach by Brenda Novak
Review: The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim

April 2021

Review: The Bus on Thursday by Shirley Barrett
Bookish Stuff: The right place and time to read?
Review: The Lamplighters by Emma Stonex
Review: House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland

March 2021

Review: Later by Stephen King
Review: The Sanatorium by Sarah Pearce
Review: The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
Review: Underland by Robert Macfarlane

February 2021

Bookish Stuff: Prepping for Middle Grade March
Review: The Girl Who Couldn't Read by John Harding
Review: The Library of the Dead by T.L. Huchu
Review: Gerta by Kateřina Tučková 

January 2021

Review: The Crooked Mask by Rachel Burge
Review: The Readers' Room by Antoine Lauraine
Review: Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
Review: The Lost and Found Bookshop by Susan Wiggs

DECEMBER 2020

Review: A Place Called Perfect by Helena Duggan
Bookish Stuff: Jólabókaflóð
Review: Summerwater by Sarah Moss
Review: Christmas: A Biography by Judith Flanders
Bookish Stuff: When your partner becomes your reading buddy

NOVEMBER 2020

Review: The Miracle on Ebenezer Street by Catherine Doyle
Bookish Stuff: Ghost Stories at Christmas Time - A Victorian Tradition
Bookish Stuff: Prepping for the holidays in times of Covid
Review: Paris by Starlight by Robert Dinsdale
Bookish Stuff: Comfort Reads

October 2020

Review: Dear Reader by Cathy Rentzenbrink
Review: October, October by Katya Balen
Review: The October Boys by Adam Millard
Review: Ghosts of Harvard by Francesca Serritella

September 2020

Review: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
Review: Pages & Co 3 - Tilly and the Map of Stories by Anna James
Review: I'd Rather Be Reading by Anne Bogel
Bookish Stuff: The Importance of Poetry

August 2020

Review: Harrow Lake by Kat Ellis
Bookish Stuff: Book vs. Film
Review: The Printed Letter Bookshop by Katherine Reay
Bookish Stuff: Summer Reading or How the Heat is Slowing me Down

July 2020

Review: The Many Lives of Heloise Starchild by John Ironmonger
Review: Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Bookish Stuff: The Importance of Libraries
Review: The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune

June 2020

Review: Anne of Green Gables: A Graphic Novel by Mariah Marsden & Brenna Thummler
Review: A Sprinkle of Sorcery by Michelle Harrison
Review: The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

May 2020

Review: The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix
Review: Five Hundred Miles From You by Jenny Colgan
Review: Pine by Francine Toon
Review: Gargantis by Thomas Taylor

April 2020

Bookish Stuff: Favourite Reading Spots
Review: Not Forgetting the Whale by John Ironmonger 
Review: Words in Deep Blue by Cath Crowley
Review: Malamander by Thomas Taylor
Bookish Stuff: Teaching Literature Remotely

March 2020

Review: Malamander by Thomas Taylor
Bookish Stuff: Reading in Times of Corona (Ramblings from my self-isolation book fort)
Review: The Scent Keeper by Erica Bauermeister
Review: Heartstopper by Alice Oseman
Review: The Saturday Night Ghost Club by Craig Davidson

February 2020

Bookshop Spotlight: The Last Bookstore, Los Angeles
Review: Creatures by Crissy Van Meter
Review: Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
Bookish Stuff: Second Hand Bookshops

JAnuary 2020

Review: The Island Child by Molly Aitken
Review: Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
Bookish Stuff: Planning a Holiday and a Long-Haul Flight - A Bookworm's Problems
Review: The Lost Ones by Anita Frank
Review: Alone Time by Stephanie Rosenbloom

December 2019

Review: Winterwood by Shea Ernshaw
Review: The Christmasaurus by Tom Fletcher
Bookish Stuff: Books for Christmas
Review: The Lost Coast by Amy Rose Capetta

NOvember 2019

Review: The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
Bookish Stuff: Holiday Season Or What Am I Reading This December
Review: Shelf Respect by Annie Austen
Bookish Stuff: To Lend Or Not To Lend - That is the question?
Review: Dead Leaves by Kealan Patrick Burke

October 2019

Review: Odd and the Frost Giants by Neil Gaiman
Review: Oligarchy by Scarlett Thomas
Review: The Book of Boy by Catherine Gilbert Murdock
Review: The Institute by Stephen King
Review: In the Night Wood by Dale Bailey
Review: The Testaments by Margaret Atwood

September 2019

Bookish Stuff: Autumn is Here! What are Your Autumn Reading Traditions?
Review: Pages & Co - Tilly and the Lost Fairytales by Anna James
Review: Pumpkin Heads by Rainbow Rowell and Faith Erin Hicks
Review: Frankissstein by Jeanette Winterson
Review: House of Salt and Sorrows by Erin A. Craig
Review: Lighthousekeeping by Jeanette Winterson

August 2019

Review: The Book Charmer by Karen Hawkins
Review: The Pine Islands by Marion Poschmann
Review: Confessions of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell
Bookish Stuff: Finding the time to read
Review: The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender by Leslye Walton
Bookish Stuff: How to Hide your Book-Buying Addiction

July 2019

Review: The Last Book Party by Karen Dukess
Review: Big Sky by Kate Atkinson
Review: Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want To Come by Jessica Pan
Review: Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson
Bookish Stuff: Reading Slumps

June 2019

Review: The Changeling by Victor Lavalle
Review: The Paper & Hearts Society by Lucy Powrie
Review: The Devouring Gray by Christine Lynn Herman
Review: Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
Review: The Salt Path by Raynor Winn
Review: Hunted by Darcy Coates

May 2019

Review: My Name is Monster by Katie Hale
Review: The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henriquez
Review: The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon
Review: Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss
Bookish Stuff: Litsy now has a web version
Review: The Bookshop on the Shore by Jenny Colgan

April 2019

Review: Halloween Fiend by C.V. Hunt
Review: The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker
Review: Wakenhyrst by Michelle Paver
Review: Lanny by Max Porter
Bookish Spotlight: Gladstone's Library, Hawarden, Wales
Review: Spring by Ali Smith

March 2019

Review: The Republic of Motherhood by Liz Berry
Review: Things in Jars by Jess Kidd
Bookshop Spotlight: Topping & Co., St Andrews, Scotland
Review: A Pinch of Magic by Michelle Harrison
Review: Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Review: The Valley at the Centre of the World by Malachy Tallack

February 2019

Bookish Stuff: Rereading Favourite Books
Review: The Truth Pixie by Matt Haig
Review: The Gilded Wolves by Roshani Chokshi
Review: Miss Mary's Book of Dreams by Sophie Nicholls
Review: The Enchanted Hour by Meghan Cox Gurdon
Review: Book Love by Debbie Tung
Bookish Stuff: Using the Library

January 2019

Review: Educated by Tara Westover
Review: Our Castle by the Sea by Lucy Strange
Review: The Winter of the Witch by Katherine Arden
Review: My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Review: Salt On Your Tongue by Charlotte Runcie
Review: Sal by Mick Kitson

December 2018

Bookish Stuff: Looking Back on the Reading Year
Review: The Twisted Tree by Rachel Burge
Review: The Toy Makers by Robert Dinsdale
Review: The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden
Review: The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street by Karina Yan Glaser

November 2018

Review: Transcription by Kate Atkinson
Bookish Stuff: Reading in Cafés
Review: The Crimes of Grindelwald by J.K. Rowling
Bookish Stuff: Teaching Harry Potter
Review: The Book of Dust by Philip Pullman
Bookish Stuff: Reading Retreats
Review: Pages & Co by Anna James
Review: The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden