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.
Tag: ★★★
Read: Now She is Witch by Kirsty Logan ★★★☆☆ 📚
Fantasy history, witch hunts, plague. Some unexpected twists and reveals.
Read: Galatea by Madeline Miller ★★★☆☆ 📚
Short, Pygmalion retold. Not The Song of Achilles or Circe.
Read: A Darker Domain by Val McDermid ★★★☆☆ 📚
Read: The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin ★★★☆☆ 📚
I found the Cultural Revolution section interesting, the detective predictable, the physics and harder sci-fi lost me. I did finish it though.
Read: Treacle Walker by Alan Garner ★★★☆☆ 📚
Short full of allegory, symbolism & english folklore, most of which I am sure I missed, but I enjoyed listening to the strange dialect & nonsense words.
Read: Riccardino by Andrea Camilleri, Stephen Sartarelli (Translator) ★★★☆☆ 📚
Montalbano fades out…
Read: Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout ★★★☆☆ 📚
I think I liked this better than the original Lucy and not nearly as much as the Olive books. I think I prefer her older characters.
Read: The Woman of Troy by Pat Barker ★★★☆☆
Read: In the House of Lies by Ian Rankin ★★★☆☆ 📚
Usual enjoyable stuff Rebus retired and sticking his nose in.