World LiteraTour
Reading the World’s Greatest Stories
Book reviews and analyses of literature from around the world, from the most ancient classics to the newest releases
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2026 Leacock Medal Shortlist The shortlist for this year’s Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour is out, and I’ve decided to read all the nominees. Let’s talk about them! What is the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour? If you’re like I was a few weeks ago, you might be asking, “What is the Stephen Leacock Medal…
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March 2026 Reading Wrap-Up Hello and welcome to my March 2026 reading wrap-up! Wow, I didn’t post to this blog at all in April. Somehow it went by in a blink, and I suddenly realized I’d had this post in my drafts for over a month! So… my bad, here it is! I finished…
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Son of Nobody by Yann Martel: REVIEW Goodreads Blurb From the author of the international bestseller Life of Pi, a brilliant retelling of the Trojan War from two commoners: an ancient soldier and a modern scholar. Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey were not the only ancient tales of the Trojan War. In Son of Nobody, Yann Martel composes a new…
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Spring Resolutions My Spring Resolutions It’s becoming clearer to me every year that we’ve been doing resolutions all wrong. Because of the arbitrary way the Gregorian calendar organizes the months of the year, we always try to make our resolutions for growth and change in the dead of winter when our bodies are screaming at…
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You Did Nothing Wrong by CG Drews: REVIEW Goodreads Blurb Single mother Elodie’s life has become a fairy tale. She’s met Bren, equal parts golden-retriever devoted and sinfully handsome. He’s whisked her and her autistic son, Jude, to the crumbling family house he’s renovating. She has a new husband, a new house, and a new…
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Reboot by Justin Taylor: REVIEW Goodreads Blurb David Crader is a has-been. A former child actor from the hit teen drama Rev Beach, he now rotates between his new roles as deadbeat dad, recovering alcoholic, and occasional videogame voice actor. But when David is summoned to Los Angeles by Grace, his ex-wife and former…
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February 2026 Reading Wrap-Up Hello and welcome to my February 2026 reading wrap-up! Thanks to a number of shorter books that I read for the Olympicsathon (readathon hosted by YouTube’s ClumsyCharlott during every Olympics), I managed to complete 15 books during the shortest month of the year. I also had a couple of DNF’s, both…