Thirteen ways of looking by Colum McCann
A novella, Thirteen ways of looking and short stories, What time is it now, where you are?, Sh’hkol, Treaty. Trigger warning...
9 June 2019
Notes to self by Emilie Pine
This was my book club’s choice for May. I had heard about it before that and had meant to read it...
25 May 2019
Normal people by Sally Rooney
What is a normal person? Is anyone normal? and if not, does that not mean that everyone is? I guess normality...
31 March 2019
Tin Man by Sarah Winman
My book club chose this for the January meeting, and although I hadn’t even started it when the book club met...
13 January 2019
The scandal by Fredrik Backman
also published as Beartown I was going to say that I recently read Backman’s breakout novel A man called Over, but...
10 October 2018
Anatomy of a scanal by Sarah Vaughan
Told from a variety of point of views, and interspersed with flashbacks this book starts off with an affair that turns...
24 June 2018
Wild : a journey from lost to found by Cheryl Strayed
Sometimes the blurb of a book can be a tad off putting. I remember when I first became aware of Wild...
21 April 2018
Major Pettigrew’s last stand by Helen Simonson
I read this because it was my bookclub selection for March. I am afraid that it certainly was not my cup...
26 March 2018
Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada
translated by Michael Hofman Given all the tragedy, destruction, and horrors of World War II I don’t often stop to consider...
1 March 2018
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
The French trilogy ; 2 Set before, during, and after World War 1 Birdsong tells the story of a young Englishman....
20 January 2018
The high mountains of Portugal by Yann Martel
This book. I just. Okay, to start with I wasn’t sure I was even going to finish it. Tomás and his...
25 November 2017
Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine by Gail Honeyman
I started reading this book because my book club chose it. I don’t think that I would have picked it up...
22 October 2017
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