Read: The Cat Who Saved Books by Sōsuke Natsukawa translated Louise Heal Kawai ★★★☆☆ 📚
Carelessly throwing this into the slight, fun Japanese novel pile.
Category Archives: Book
Read: O Caledonia by Elspeth Barker ★★★★★📚
2022 off to a good start. Brilliant fun. Short strange life of Scot’s girl. Gothic home, weird family, horrible school. Laugh out loud & touching.
Read: Antlers of Water: Writing on the Nature and Environment of Scotland edited by Kathleen Jamie ★★★★★ 📚
Marvellous anthology astonished me, the range of writers on what I consider my sphere of interest that I had not read. Lots to follow up, just one e.g. Amanda Thomson Art.
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.
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.