Uploaded June 2021 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
#Catchup on the last couple of weeks of reading – Casual as always. Sunshine the Budgie extremely loud throughout and I forgot that the window was open enough to let traffic noises in (budgies could not get out).
Channels mentioned.
Ana Mo Shoshin youtube.com/channel/UClPkVNjQxG79IBr6Iu1EFPg
Allen at Big Hard Books & Classics youtube.com/channel/UCBNfvf5Imc7KjiUIf4WC4Mg
Books Read/Mentioned
Read:
The Lost Soul by Olga Tokarczuk and Joanna Concejo
The Mermaid of Black Conch by Monique Roffey – winner of the Costa Book of the year 2020.
The Last Resort by Jan Carson
The Phone Box at the Edge of the World by Laura Imai Messina
Leonard and Hungry Paul by Rónán Hession
Passing by Nella Larsen
The House on Vesper Sands by Pariac O’Donnell – bought in the wonderful Gutter Bookshop – they like to tweet from @gutterbookshop
A budgie eaten copy of Death of a Travelling Man by MC Beaton
The Whitstable Pearl Mystery by Julie Wassmer
Being Read:
Fire Keepers Daughter by Angelina Boulley
Sula by Toni Morrison
We Are Not Ourselves by Mathew Thomas
Tana French’s the Trespasser (no 6 in the Dublin Murder Squad Series)
My other social media:
Twitter: twitter.com/mariahilldublin?lang=en
Instagram: instagram.com/miadublin
Goodreads (Please answer the question any way you like and I will Friend back): goodreads.com/user/show/46346297-maria-hill-aka-mh-books
Goodreads owned TBR list – I am not available for Buddy Reads until 26 May 2021 but open after then! goodreads.com/review/list/46346297-maria-hill-aka-mh-books?shelf=owned-tbr
#Catchup on the last couple of weeks of reading – Casual as always. Sunshine the Budgie extremely loud throughout and I forgot that the window was open enough to let traffic noises in (budgies could not get out).
Channels mentioned.
Ana Mo Shoshin youtube.com/channel/UClPkVNjQxG79IBr6Iu1EFPg
Allen at Big Hard Books & Classics youtube.com/channel/UCBNfvf5Imc7KjiUIf4WC4Mg
Books Read/Mentioned
Read:
The Lost Soul by Olga Tokarczuk and Joanna Concejo
The Mermaid of Black Conch by Monique Roffey – winner of the Costa Book of the year 2020.
The Last Resort by Jan Carson
The Phone Box at the Edge of the World by Laura Imai Messina
Leonard and Hungry Paul by Rónán Hession
Passing by Nella Larsen
The House on Vesper Sands by Pariac O’Donnell – bought in the wonderful Gutter Bookshop – they like to tweet from @gutterbookshop
A budgie eaten copy of Death of a Travelling Man by MC Beaton
The Whitstable Pearl Mystery by Julie Wassmer
Being Read:
Fire Keepers Daughter by Angelina Boulley
Sula by Toni Morrison
We Are Not Ourselves by Mathew Thomas
Tana French’s the Trespasser (no 6 in the Dublin Murder Squad Series)
My other social media:
Twitter: twitter.com/mariahilldublin?lang=en
Instagram: instagram.com/miadublin
Goodreads (Please answer the question any way you like and I will Friend back): goodreads.com/user/show/46346297-maria-hill-aka-mh-books
Goodreads owned TBR list – I am not available for Buddy Reads until 26 May 2021 but open after then! goodreads.com/review/list/46346297-maria-hill-aka-mh-books?shelf=owned-tbr






![The Covid Katchup Tag
The Covid Katchup Tag.
Tag originator. Allen @ Big Hard Books and Classics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ako1J...
Tagged by: Beating around the books.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBp0p53CTLU
Tagged if they want to do it.
Rainierbooks Walking Round Stockholm https://youtu.be/-Zu4ClHHKlM
Eva Strange, Reading Vlogs – most recent https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wO2qt5DymQ
Knitting, Books etc. From Portugal. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsUr8yiR-I2sWvxyXWhA0jQ
Questions.
1 When did you first hear about Covid-19?
2 How are things in your neck of the woods? Whats open or not?
3 Beach reading - any books you are looking forward to reading after Covid?
4 Whats a book you have read in these last months directly or indirectly because of Covid?
5 What is the best video you have made or seen during Covid?
6 Are you going to have the vaccine?
7 Tag people.
I am trying to read 6/12 Jhalak longlisted books by 13th April – but which ones and can I do it?
The longlist can be found here - https://www.jhalakprize.com/.
And Mel’s discussion video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xxa0775jBmA
Romalyn Ante - Antiemetic for Homesickness (Chatto & Windus)
Catherine Cho - Inferno (Bloomsbury Circus)
Afshan D’Souza-Lodhi - [re: desire] (Burning Eye Books)
Caleb Femi - Poor (Penguin)
Kiran Millwood Hargrave - The Mercies (Picador)
Tammye Huf - A More Perfect Union (Myriad Editions)
Rachel Long - My Darling From the Lions (Picador)
Deirdre Mask - The Address Book (Profile Books)
Katy Massey - Are We Home Yet (jacaranda)
Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi - The First Woman (Oneworld Publications)
Paul Mendez - Rainbow Milk (Dialogue Books)
Stephanie Scott - What’s Left of Me Is Yours (W&N)
My other social media:
Goodreads (Please answer the question any way you like and I will Friend back): https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/46346297-maria-hill-aka-mh-books
Twitter: https://twitter.com/mariahilldublin?lang=en The Covid Katchup Tag](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/iLb3HpvNltk/mqdefault.jpg)



