Year: 2025

The Healing Hippo of Hinode Park is less a novel and more a giant, cosy hug — five parable-like stories […]

Richly detailed and deeply respectful of its subject, Neighborhood Craftsmen: Stories from Kanda’s Gokura-chou, Vol. 1 isn’t just a manga, […]

Part love story, part reckoning — Boulder dares to challenge how we think about women, connection, and independence.  First Impressions I had […]

The Booker Prize 2025 Longlist We have recently been gifted with The Booker Prize Longlist for 2025, and I was […]

She is flat like a picture. But her colours are even more vivid more than usual, she looks exactly how […]

Waiting is a big part of a slave’s life, waiting and waiting to wait some more. Waiting for demands. Waiting […]

I rarely hard DNF a book. As a mood reader, soft DNFs are relatively common for me — I often […]

He wanted to run. He wanted to scream. He wanted to raise his fists towards the stars and rant and […]

Welcome to the first TBR list from Books the Word. July is a month of reflection and transformation — a mid-year […]