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Cleopatra and Frankenstein by Coco Mellors | book review

Despite this seeming like a bad review, I adore this book on how not to love

Mar 7

May 2025 wrap-up | book updates, ballet highlights, and beautiful blooms

Reading updates, a giggly development, London and Cambridge adventures, and more

Jun 2

Upcoming June releases

Book releases for June 2025: family sagas with sisters and mother-daughter intricacies, a Harvard power couple, healing fiction, a research book on how…

May 27

A reading list for eldest daughters | Reads With Friends

Thoughtful eldest daughter book recommendations: from self-love and sisterhood to being a child of immigrants

May 23

April 2025 wrap-up | blooms and books, Soho House, personal journal updates

Wisteria in London, two book clubs, Moco Museum, notes from my journal, and more

May 4

Bethnal Green by Amélie Skoda | book review

For this book about a Malaysian migrating to London in the 1970s, I write a critical book review, then criticise my own criticism

May 2

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