Archive - Reads With Alicia

What my friends are reading this summer | Reads With Friends

41 summer book recommendations curated by my friends, from new releases to backlist books: prize-winners, romances, thrillers, feminist stories…

Jun 20

May 2025 wrap-up | book updates, ballet highlights, and beautiful blooms

Reading updates, a giggly development, London and Cambridge adventures, and more

Jun 2

May 2025

Upcoming June releases

Book releases for June 2025: family sagas with sisters and mother-daughter intricacies, a Harvard power couple, healing fiction, a research book on how…

May 27

A reading list for eldest daughters | Reads With Friends

Thoughtful eldest daughter book recommendations: from self-love and sisterhood to being a child of immigrants

May 23

April 2025 wrap-up | blooms and books, Soho House, personal journal updates

Wisteria in London, two book clubs, Moco Museum, notes from my journal, and more

May 4

Bethnal Green by Amélie Skoda | book review

For this book about a Malaysian migrating to London in the 1970s, I write a critical book review, then criticise my own criticism

May 2

April 2025

Upcoming May book releases

Book releases for May 2025: a book club murder mystery, a novel exposing Singaporean society fault lines, nonfiction about translated literature, and…

Apr 27

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë | book review

A feminist Victorian heroine in a gothic landscape by Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre’s willpower and self-assuredness is admirable and a soothing balm for…

Apr 25

The transformative books that made Daniel Puzzo, teacher and mentor | Reads With Friends

The varied books that guided a bibliophile’s life through crossroads and nine countries

Apr 17

What my friends are reading this spring | Reads With Friends

32 spring reads from my bookish friends: seasonal picks, cosy reads, fresh starts, timeless classics, and more

Apr 10

The Cat Who Saved the Library by Sōsuke Natsukawa | book review

Book bans and censorship meet a brave 13-year-old and a talking tabby cat in this sequel to a Japanese bestseller

Apr 4

March 2025

March 2025 wrap-up | Saatchi Gallery, my flower obsession, and a reading update

Notes from my journal, pictures from the Saatchi Gallery, books I read this month, and more

Mar 30

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