by amykitchen | Oct 14, 2026 | listen, read, watch
Nobody close to me has died recently. And yet, if you looked at what I’ve been watching, reading and listening to over the past year, you’d be forgiven for assuming otherwise. Sick matriarchs. Lost family houses. Dying protagonists. Families pulled apart by forces...
by amykitchen | Oct 7, 2026 | read
The trouble with a Kindle is that every book weighs the same. So it was a shock to spot The Calamity Club stacked on a bookshop table, mid-read, and realise it runs to 656 pages. A doorstop, in other words, and the first stretch of this book reads like one. Kathryn...
by amykitchen | Aug 11, 2026 | read
We’re told not to judge a book by its cover. Whistler got me anyway, and it was a horse that did it. There’s this animal right there on the dust jacket, and nothing in the blurb mentions a horse at all. I wanted to find out why. This was my first Ann...
by amykitchen | Jun 10, 2026 | read
There’s a Cup of Jo post making the rounds this week asking readers what books they’ve begged their friends to read. The comments are, predictably, a rabbit hole. I’ve had three tabs open and a Goodreads queue growing steadily since Tuesday. It got...
by amykitchen | Jun 9, 2026 | read
There is something jarring about reading a memoir where the pandemic appears as backstory. A few lines in, the narrator references lockdown as a turning point, and for a moment the whole thing stutters. It feels like it was just six months ago. It was also, in some...
by amykitchen | May 27, 2026 | read
I put a hold on this at my library before it was out. That doesn’t usually work in my favour. This time it did, and I had it within the first couple of weeks of release. I read it on a plane. By the time we landed, I wanted to talk about it with everyone....
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