Read: Three Summers by Margarita Liberaki ★★★☆☆ 📚
3 girls growing up in Greece, lovely scenery, with the feel of long repetitive summer days. A lot going on behind the scenes that slowly emerge.
Category Archives: Book
Read: The Union of Synchronised Swimmers by Cristina Sandu ★★★★☆📚Sad tales, elliptical fragments for the lives of six defectors that sync together a story.
Read: Ms Ice Sandwich – Mieko Kawakami ★★★★☆ 📚slim, slight but gently moving story of an adolescent boy in Japan.
Read: Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa ★★★★☆ 📚 a Palestinian tale way beyond my ken. Carried me along but left me sadness.
Read:An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears 📚 ★★★★☆ fascinating historical details, a tale from 4 perspectives none completely reliable, not all likeable. Science, politics and society in restoration England.
Read: Cover Her Face – P.D. James ★★★☆☆ 📚 Country house mystery. Good fun.
Read: Deacon King Kong – James McBride ★★★☆☆ 📚
Took me a while to get into the rhythm, a meandering tale.
Read: Snow by John Banville ★★★☆☆ 📚
A nice trip to Ireland & crime fiction’s past. Country houses, local colour and character. Somewhat disrupted by the gory details.
Read: Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie ★★★☆☆ 📚
Read: The Corner That Held Them by Sylvia Townsend Warner ★★★★★ 📚
Super book, full of small incidents, ageing, illness, deaths & disappointment in a 14th century nunnery. The Black Death, a phoney priest, riot, rape & murder. A really sense of time passing, & quite a few laughs.