JUNE

 

Gliff ~ Ali Smith

 Speculative, dystopian.

Just not sure about it! Thought provoking take on A Brave New World

King of Ashes ~ S. A. Cosby

Jeeze, maybe I'm hard to pleeze! Read close to 50%

Couldn't care is they all became ashes. Crappy character portraits.
 

Butter ~ Asako Yuzuki

 Just didn't grab me. Might go  back to it

Isola ~ Allegra Goodman

 Based on a true story.

Took a while leading up to her being marooned and would have liked a similar section after her rescue.

A Thousand Splendid Suns ~ Khaled Hosseini

 

The Names ~ Florence Knapp

****

A sliding doors story.

A baby, named after his father, Gordon.

A baby, named by his sister, Bear

A baby, named by his mother, Julian

 

Disgrace (Dept Q #2) ~ Jussi Adler-Olsen

 

Fell down so badly in the last 10%! So rushed, so stupid, 

MAY

 

Fever Beach ~ Carl Hiaasen

 It wasn't as satirically funny as Squeeze Me.  This one was a parody centred around Proud Boys wannabes. It was overlong with too many subplots and jokes worn thin.