Read: A Heart Full of Headstones by Ian Rankin ★★★☆☆
Rebus is now very old, somehow keeps me reading even though I’ve never steered a chronological paths through the books.
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Read: April in Spain by John Banville ★★★★☆ 📚
Slowly building up a few different threads that come together quickly. A lot of fun from the characters as opposed to the plot.
Read: Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler ★★★☆☆ 📚
A wee bit to young-adult for me to love. I enjoyed reading it in a fairly relaxed way. As much as you an enjoy the apocalypse.
Read: Outline by Rachel Cusk ★★★★☆📚
An author has a series of revealing conversations. Some short some over a few days. Not sure why this is so readable?
Read: Hindsight: In Search of Lost Wilderness by Jenna Watt ★★★★☆ 📚
Stimulating investigation deer in Scotland, rewilding, green lairds and the like. Fitted well with the recent episode of Scotland outdoors. Female ecologists & stalkers. A first stalk by the author.
Read: Now She is Witch by Kirsty Logan ★★★☆☆ 📚
Fantasy history, witch hunts, plague. Some unexpected twists and reveals.
Read: Journey by Moonlight by Antal Szerb ★★★★☆ 📚
Somewhat rambling, dreamy & hypnotic tale of a newly married couple who almost immediately split. The various Hungarians wander through Italy & Paris cross paths and each other, developing, or not, in different ways.
Read: Galatea by Madeline Miller ★★★☆☆ 📚
Short, Pygmalion retold. Not The Song of Achilles or Circe.
Read: The Secret History by Donna Tartt ★★★★★ 📚
A re-read. Still brilliant. A cast of over privileged young poseurs’ arrogance leads to murder and their panic to another. The consequences play out. All followed by the less wealthy narrator, who is dragged in and down by his fascination.
Read: The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka ★★★★★ 📚
Great read. I know almost nothing about Sri Lanka. Surprisingly touching given the setting, the after life, a world of ghosts & demons many the result of political killings.