Books Read Barsk: The Elephant’s Graveyard by Lawrence M. Schoen Updraft by Fran Wilde Currently Reading The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood (1) The nominees for two major awards were announced this week. The first was the...
Read MoreI finish a book about talking animals (Bete by Adam Roberts) and replace it with a novel about talking bees. Well, I say talking bees but the drones, foragers and sages that form the world of Laline Paull’s debut novel, the...
Read MoreBottom Line A well written family drama about the Whitshank family that I never truly engaged with. Representative Paragraph One of the characters in the novel is the house on Bouton Road that was built and maintained by Junior...
Read More… the magnificent How To Be Both by Ali Smith. Obviously I’m delighted by this choice, given how much I adored the Smith. And it’s increasingly looking like that How To Be Both is going to go down as the most...
Read MoreAnnounced yesterday (or earlier this morning my time) were the six nominees for the Baileys Women’s Prize For Fiction. You can check out the very schmick website here or, you know, lower your eyes and check out my...
Read MoreThe TL;DR Review For Those Who Haven’t Read The Book What’s The Book About? Faye flies to Greece to give a two-day writing class. Each chapter is made up of the conversations she has on her trip. It’s also a book where...
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