I really enjoyed this book! It was on my son-in-laws wish list so I gave him a copy for his birthday, and he said it was his favourite book of the year (he might have been being polite! but I took him at his word and read the kindle copy I had and loved it).Continue reading “Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow – Gabrielle Zevin – 22.08.23”
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The Echo Chamber – John Boyne – 19.08.23
I’m not sure what to make of this book. I was in places quite funny, and I did laugh once or twice, but on the whole I found it more annoying than funny. Like an elderly relative at a party thinking it’s really funny to make endless jokes about the young people and their ‘socialContinue reading “The Echo Chamber – John Boyne – 19.08.23”
The This – Adam Roberts – 13.08.23
Typically of Adam Roberts sci-fi books, The This is quite mind-bending and sweeping in scale. The first couple of chapters were very ‘out-there’ and I wasn’t sure what was going on, but all did become clear as the book progressed. The This is an interesting study of the evolution of humanity when technology to allowContinue reading “The This – Adam Roberts – 13.08.23”
Falling Angels – Tracy Chevalier (AUDIOBOOK) – 13.08.23
I enjoyed this audiobook of Tracy Chevalier’s second novel. It begins in a London graveyard at the turn of the Twentieth century when two well to do families are visiting their family plots to (quite strangely, I thought) mark the death of Queen Victoria. The daughters of the families (aged 6/7 at the beginning ofContinue reading “Falling Angels – Tracy Chevalier (AUDIOBOOK) – 13.08.23”
Old God’s Time – Sebastian Barry, (Audiobook) – Stephen Hogan (Narrator) – 09.08.23
This was a very beautiful and very sad novel. The narration by Stephen Hogan was amazing – such a lovely Irish accent, and the pathos and feeling that he put into what he was reading – it felt like listening to a great actor soliloquizing on stage (or indeed to a broken man bearing hisContinue reading “Old God’s Time – Sebastian Barry, (Audiobook) – Stephen Hogan (Narrator) – 09.08.23”
Birnam Wood (Audiobook) – Eleanor Catton (Author), Saskia Maarleveld (Narrator) – 07.08.23
Perhaps this audiobook suffered in my estimation by me listening to it immediately after Abraham Verghese’s sublimely fabulous ‘The Covenant of Water’ but I’m afraid I found it, for the most part completely uninteresting. In fact vapid and tedious. The narrator was great – I loved her Kiwi accent, and I felt she put asContinue reading “Birnam Wood (Audiobook) – Eleanor Catton (Author), Saskia Maarleveld (Narrator) – 07.08.23”
The Psychology of Time Travel – Kate Mascarenhas – 06.08.23
I really liked this book. All the main characters were female, including the scientists who developed and built the first time travel machines and subsequently ran the company that owned and controlled them. Other than this, the book felt like a classic old style sci-fi. Unlike many time-travel stories, there was no danger involved inContinue reading “The Psychology of Time Travel – Kate Mascarenhas – 06.08.23”
The Covenant of Water – Abraham Verghese – (Audiobook) – 03.08.23
Abraham Verghese’s previous book, Cutting For Stone, is by far my favourite book that my book group has read over it’s twenty years and so I was very excited for this long awaited new novel. At over 31 hours the audiobook is very long, but at no point during the listen was I bored, andContinue reading “The Covenant of Water – Abraham Verghese – (Audiobook) – 03.08.23”
The Glass God (Magicals Anonymous Book 2) – Kate Griffin – 28.07.23
I’m still enjoying this spin off to the Matthew Swift Midnight Mayer series more than the original although you do have to be familiar with the Midnight Mayer books to understand what is going on in these. I like the character of Sharon Li, Sharman and leader of the Magicals Anonymous, the rag-tag band ofContinue reading “The Glass God (Magicals Anonymous Book 2) – Kate Griffin – 28.07.23”
Our Missing Hearts (AUDIOBOOK)- Celeste Ng (Author), Lucy Liu (Narrator) – 21.07.23
I loved this book! I was enraptured listening to the tale set in an alternate present in America where after a global financial crisis which crippled the American economy is blamed on China, anti Asian feeling is rife and extends to all East Asians and even to anyone displaying any interest in or sympathies towardsContinue reading “Our Missing Hearts (AUDIOBOOK)- Celeste Ng (Author), Lucy Liu (Narrator) – 21.07.23”
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