Wilma Aalbers
Spring and Early Summer Reads 2022
Hiatus over! Let's talk about books! Morgan Murray, Dirty Birds Toni Morrison, Recitatif Alice Oseman, Heartstopper volumes 1,2, and 3...
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Wilma Aalbers
- Apr 24
- 11 min
March 2022 Reads
Emily Fridlund, The History of Wolves Phillip Roth, American Pastoral Marissa Stapley, Lucky Octavia Butler, Kindred S. Bear Bergman,...
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Wilma Aalbers
- Mar 11
- 12 min
February 2022
Catherine Hernandez, Scarborough Margareta Magnusson, The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning Karen M. McManus, One of Us is Lying...
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Wilma Aalbers
- Jan 29
- 14 min
January 2022 Reads
A full month of no white guys! Mariana Enriquez, The Dangers of Smoking In Bed Angeline Boulley, Firekeeper’s Daughter Catherine...
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Wilma Aalbers
- Dec 29, 2021
- 12 min
Solstice 2021 Reads - for the long long nights
Jesse Wente, Unreconciled: Family, Truth and Indigenous Resistance Ian Williams, Disorientation Jonathan Franzen, Crossroads Ian McEwan,...
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Wilma Aalbers
- Nov 21, 2021
- 10 min
Fall 2021 Reads - Part One
Nick Hornby, Just Like You Kevin Lambert, You Will Love What You Have Killed Dakshana Bascaramurty, This is Not the End of Me Miriam...
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Wilma Aalbers
- Sep 16, 2021
- 8 min
Summer 2021 Reads
Part One: Girl Power Gabriela Garcia, Of Women and Salt Gabriela Garcia’s Of Women and Salt is the book American Dirt was trying to be....
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Wilma Aalbers
- Aug 17, 2021
- 8 min
Summer Interlude: Liars Never Prosper
Shani Mootoo, Polar Vortex Karma Brown, Recipe For a Perfect Wife These titles are the last two books I read in July. They are extremely...
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Wilma Aalbers
- Jul 25, 2021
- 14 min
June Reads
Elizabeth Acevedo, Clap When You Land Ivan Coyote, Rebent Sinner John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should...
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Wilma Aalbers
- Jun 16, 2021
- 12 min
May Reads
Yoko Ogawa, The Memory Police If you happen to be out there, like I am, looking for Japanese fiction NOT written by Haruki Murakami, I...
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Wilma Aalbers
- May 14, 2021
- 15 min
April Reads
The one where Murakami goes too far... Matt Haig, The Midnight Library I’m not one of those people who really dig stories that involve...
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Wilma Aalbers
- Apr 16, 2021
- 13 min
March Reads
George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain Raven Leilani, Luster Kazuo Ishiguro, Klara and the Sun Tony Medino, I Am Alfonso Jones...
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Wilma Aalbers
- Mar 12, 2021
- 10 min
February Reads
Glennon Doyle, Untamed Ashley Audrain, The Push David A. Robertson, Strangers Ian McEwan, Amsterdam As I reflect on my February reading I...
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Wilma Aalbers
- Feb 14, 2021
- 12 min
January Reads
Jael Richardson, Gutter Child Michael Crummey, Galore Yaa Gyasi, Transcendent Kingdom Zalika Reid-Benta, Frying Plantain Mariko Tamaki...
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Wilma Aalbers
- Jan 17, 2021
- 15 min
December Reads Part Two
Walter Tevis, The Queen’s Gambit Bettina L. Love, We Want to Do More Than Survive Susanna Clark, Piranesi Ijeoma Oluo, Mediocre The...
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Wilma Aalbers
- Dec 31, 2020
- 11 min
December Reads Part One
Amanda Boyden, I Got The Dog You may recollect a previous piece I wrote on Joseph Boyden, which was instigated by the recent release of...
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Wilma Aalbers
- Dec 10, 2020
- 13 min
NOVEMBER READS
Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want To Talk About Race Delia Owens, Where The Crawdads Sing Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body Sheila...
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Wilma Aalbers
- Nov 15, 2020
- 12 min
October Reads
Kristyn Dunnion, Stoop City Joseph Boyden, From Mushkegowuk to New Orleans: A Mixed Blood Highway Joe Sacco, Paying the Land Jeanette...
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Wilma Aalbers
- Oct 12, 2020
- 12 min
September Reads 2020
Emma Donoghue, The Pull of the Stars Ninni Holmqvist, The Unit Ali Benjamin, The Thing About Jellyfish Dr. Jen Gunter, The Vagina Bible...
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Wilma Aalbers
- Oct 12, 2020
- 4 min
Ninni Holmqvist, The Unit
Nope, not that kind of unit. The titular Unit is a self-contained environment that exists within the otherwise ordinary world of the near...
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