Tag: Book World

• My 2026 Reading List: An Essay About Books

  

  Thanksgiving 2025 is nearly upon us and I can’t wait to start my cooking and baking tomorrow! But, I am equally busy trying to complete my reading goal for 2025: as of today, I’ve read 64, halfway through my 65th, and have 10 more to read to meet my annual goal for this year of…

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  November 25, 2025

  books, Essay

  Book World, book-review, books, cookbook, fiction, Goodreads, graphic novel, Kindle, Libby, mystery, NetGalley, nonfiction, reading, T/b/r, Thanksgiving, Washington Post

• Book Review: Orbital by Samantha Harvey

  I’m not really sure what I want to say about this book. I finished it last night, but it took me much longer to read it than most books I read these days. Clearly displayed on the cover is the notice that it won the 2024 Booker Prize, a British award given to the best…

  michardillo

  June 7, 2025

  books

  Anne Tyler, astronauts, Book World, book-review, Booker Prize, books, cosmonauts, earth, Elizabeth Strout, fiction, grief, Grove Atlantic, International Space Station, Jonathan Cape, Kindle, literary fiction, literature, novel, Orbital, reading, Samantha Harvey, science, space, space travel, typhoon, Washington Post