Read: Old Baggage by Alissa Evans ★★★★☆ Comic novel about Suffragette in the 20s & 30s
Category Archives: Book
The Wedding by DorothyWest
Read:The Wedding by DorothyWest ★★★★☆ quite outside my normal zone. I enjoyed all the dips into the history of a middle class black American family.
The Hiding Game
Read: The Hiding Game – Naomi Wood ★★★☆☆ Covers lots of interesting ground with a bit of mystery. Looking back at the Bauhaus during the rise of Nazis. Love, art intrigue, drugs…
The Women in Black
Read:The Women in Black – Madeleine St John ★★★★☆ perfect read for the time, brief looks at the lives of women working in department store in 50’s Australia. Enjoyable, funny and characters very Australian.
What I loved
What I Loved by Siri Hustvedt ★★★★☆
Well that was complicated. My wife said it was 3 different books in one. I enjoyed them all.
Here We Are by Graham Swift
Read: Here We Are by Graham Swift
★★★★★ Really engaging novella. I both wanted to get to the end and find out what happens and keep having more to read.
A Drink Before The War
Read: A Drink Before The War Dennis Lehane ★★☆☆☆
Though a detective might cheer me up, but too may big guns and bangs.
Actress by Anne Enright
Read: Actress by Anne Enright ★★★★☆ 📚 enjoyed the descriptions and characters, especially the actress herself. Like the layers being revealed.
Read: A Thousand Moons by Sebastian Barry ★★★☆☆
This was good fun but I think I prefer his less eventful books such as Annie Dunn.
Read: Nightingale by Marina Kemp ★★★★☆
I enjoyed this, absorbing description of seasons in France, reviling characters and story slowly. Slight fall away at the end.