Before listening to this audiobook, the only things I knew about Sri Lanka came from a strange experience I had several years ago… Back in 2011/2012 I was studying for an MA in Early Childhood Education and Care. The class was all women and we all worked in the early years sector as teachers orContinue reading “The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida – Shehan Karunatilaka (AUDIOBOOK)”
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The Singer’s Gun – Emily St. John Mandel – 28.08.23
Emily St. John Mandel is a writer whose books I’ve really enjoyed in the past, and for some reason I’ve had this on on my kindle for ages but hadn’t read it. Many books by this writer have magical realism, which I love, but this one didn’t really (apart from a few ghost sightings) andContinue reading “The Singer’s Gun – Emily St. John Mandel – 28.08.23”
Alison Wonderland – Helen Smith – 23.08.23
This book gets very mixed reviews on Amazon and Goodreads, but I 100% loved it! It had everything I love in a story – wonderful literary writing, a relatable protagonist, magical realism, a cracking plot, pathos, mystery. It’s quite short (sadly) and has made me want to revisit Helen Smith as a writer I lovedContinue reading “Alison Wonderland – Helen Smith – 23.08.23”
Codex – Lev Grossman – 23.08.23
I really enjoyed this book, right up to the ending which was meh. I went online to see what other people thought of the ending and it seems that most people agree that the book just seems to run out of steam and end abruptly. (Quite a sizeable minority seem to just really dislike everythingContinue reading “Codex – Lev Grossman – 23.08.23”
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow – Gabrielle Zevin – 22.08.23
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”
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”
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