Goddess by Kelly Gardiner
I came across a mention of Julie d’Aubugny when Oisin McGann retweeted a Quite Interesting fact about her Has anyone written...
23 February 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
Passing Strange by Ellen Klages
San Francisco in 1940 is a haven for the unconventional. Tourists flock to the cities within the city: the Magic City...
3 March 2017
Tony and Susan by Austin Wright
Fifteen years ago, Susan Morrow left her first husband Edward Sheffield, an unpublished writer. Now, she’s enduring middle class suburbia as...
10 December 2016
Jaran by Kate Elliott
Novels of the Jaran, book 1 The Chapalii empire rules over all the known galaxy. Earth and all her allies have...
11 July 2015
The sky is everywhere by Jandy Nelson
Lennie is seventeen. Her mother went “exploring” when she was a baby, she lives with the Gran and her uncle Big,...
9 July 2015
Mud dir. by Jeff Nichols
Ellis (Tye Sheridan) live in Arkansas, on a boat-house, floating on a river1. His father earns a living from the river,...
4 May 2015
The day we disappeared by Lucy Robinson
Another one from Mount TBR, recommended by Ellie of Curiosity killed the Bookworm. Kate is running away from her life. The...
2 May 2015
I’ll give you the sun by Jandy Nelson
Jude and Noah are as close as twins can be. They’re also as far apart as people can be. Because Noah...
30 April 2015
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
At a market in Lahore our narrator, Changez, meets an unidentified American and offer to assist him in finding the best...
16 February 2015
Warm bodies by Isaac Marion
Part of my RIP IX reading. R is a zombie. He is not quite sure how long he’s been a zombie...
13 October 2014
Triptych by J. M. Frey
When the aliens came it was nothing like the way science fiction and popular culture had predicted it. There was no...
3 May 2014
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