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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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…
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Dead in the Water by John Marrs: REVIEW Goodreads Blurb When Damon survives a near-drowning, his life flashes before his eyes. Every memory is crystal clear—except one. A dead boy. A face he can’t place. A moment he doesn’t remember living. At first he tells himself it’s a trick of the mind. But everything else…
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January 2026 Reading Wrap-Up Hello! Welcome to my January 2026 reading wrap-up. I completed 10 books in January, but I also read half of another and had 4 DNFs (did not finish) and a soft DNF (didn’t finish for now, but will return to it). I thought I’d do something a little different this month…
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The Award by Matthew Pearl: REVIEW Goodreads Blurb David Trent is an aspiring novelist in Cambridge, Massachusetts trying to navigate his ambitions in a place that has writers around every corner. He lives in an apartment above Silas Hale, a famous author who, beneath his celebrated image, is a bombastic, vindictive monster. Silas refuses to…
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Canada Reads 2026 Shortlist: My Thoughts The Canada Reads 2026 shortlist was announced this morning, so let’s talk about it. The Shortlist and Debaters Filmmaker and actor Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers champions A Minor Chorus by Billy-Ray Belcourt “A Minor Chorus is a novel that follows an unnamed narrator who abandons his thesis and goes back to his…