Read: Human Croquet by Kate Atkinson ★★★★☆ 📚
Lots of fun, I chuckled my way through. Somewhat confused by the time travel, alternative paths and possible hallucinations. Isobel is 16 in the 60s. Her mum and dad disappear mysteriously. All the characters are strange.
Tag: ★★★★
Read: The Trees by Percival Everett ★★★★☆📚
Racism, lynching, half detective, half horror. Also laugh out loud funny. What a strange book. Raced through it. The conclusion was a bit abrupt, but I am not sure how it could be finished with complete satisfaction.
Read: An Olive Grove in Ends by Moses McKenzie ★★★★☆ 📚
Sort of Top Boy in Bristol. Once you adjust to the patois, it is an engrossing & exciting read. I felt quite conflicted by the resolution.
Read: The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff ★★★★☆ 📚
A nice trip to a distant part of the world, funny too. The dramatic climax a bit too unlikely.
Read: The Lock-Up by John Banville ★★★★☆ 📚
Despite the fact I don’t really like either of the main characters, and the crime solves itself, I enjoyed this. must be the writing.
Read The Tidal Zone by Sarah Moss ★★★★☆ 📚
Family life ruptured by child’s illness. Touching quietly on lots of issues. Has not diminished my love for reading Sara Moss.
Read: Doppelgänger by Naomi Klein ★★★★☆ 📚
Joining the dots around conspiracy, climate, indigenous rights and more. Occasionally strains the metaphor.
Read: The Underground Man by Ross Macdonald ★★★★☆ 📚
Two deer–a doe and a fawn–came down the slope in a dry creek channel, heading for the grove. They saw me and rocking-horsed over a fallen log into the trees.
Read: Three Fires by Denise Mina ★★★★☆ 📚
Lightly fictionalised account of Girolamo_Savonarola‘s life in Renaissance Florence. Radical & powerful social reformer, anti-semite & inspirer of bonfires of the vanities.
Read: Real Tigers by Mick Herron ★★★★☆
Third I read in the series, most enjoyable so far, I chuckled out loud a few times. A bit too much shooting. I couldn’t read the next one until I read other things, but feel the pull.