Schatje's Shelves

 4 Stars This novel caught my attention when it appeared on the shortlist for the 2025 Booker Prize. In 1978, ten-year-old Louisa Kang goes...

 2.5 Stars After some heavy reads with complex themes, I decided to pick up some light reading. I chose this book because it has an intere...

 3.5 Stars I loved the author’s first novel, My Sister, the Serial Killer , so was curious to read her second one. The Falodun women are cu...

 4 Stars This is a coming-of-age story. Fourteen-year-old Ida lives with her mother in the small logging town of Mineral, Washington. Her...

 3 Stars This historical novel is set in the late thirteenth century in Bruges, Belgium. Aleys is an unusual child. From early childhood, ...

 4 Stars David Adams Richards is a Canadian author whose books I always purchase as hardcovers as soon as I learn of a new release. This is...

4 Stars  I loved this novel set in Venice at the turn of the twentieth century. Evelyn Dolman, a self-described “Grub Street hack,” is marr...