Read: The Little House by Kyōko Nakajima, trans: Ginny Tapley Takemori ★★★★★ beautiful story, delicious food. Glimpse into social and domestic life in Japan before & during WW2 📚
Kind: Reads
reading a book, magazine, newspaper, other physical document, or online post
The Seduction by Joanna Briscoe
Read: The Seduction by Joanna Briscoe – Queasily page turning. ★★★☆☆ 📚
A God in Every Stone
Read: A God in Every Stone – Kamila Shamsie ★★★★☆ page turner, interesting history of WW1 & the Qissa Khwani massacre in Peshawar 📚
Ma’am Darling
Read: Ma’am Darling by Craig Brown ★★★☆☆ 📚 99 witty chapters. Some laugh out loud.
Abide with Me by Elizabeth Strout
Read: Abide with Me by Elizabeth Strout ★★★★☆ lot of darkness with light at the end. 📚
Redhead by the side of the road
Read: Redhead by the side of the road by Anne Tyler ★★★★☆ 📚
The Underground Man by Ross Macdonald
Read: The Underground Man by Ross Macdonald ★★★☆☆ Enjoyed revisiting my teenage library. 📚
Old Baggage by Alissa Evans
Read: Old Baggage by Alissa Evans ★★★★☆ Comic novel about Suffragette in the 20s & 30s
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…