05 October 2022

Shrines of Gaiety ~ Kate Atkinson

 

X NO BLEH


Boring characters who had no life breathed into them.  

Very little sense of time.

04 October 2022

Lucy By The Sea ~ Elizabeth Strout

 

X NO

Lucy can stay by the sea ... and hopefully get carried away by the tide.

Tiresome whiny narrator with the depth of a teaspoon and the vocabulary of Dick and Jane

03 October 2022

Limberlost ~ Robbie Arnott

 

*** LIKE


An outstanding Aussie writer : I liked it ... a lot ... but, there was a "but"

It has a great sense of place and time but lacks the magic realism of the previous two that I loved.

02 October 2022

Small Things Like These ~ Claire Keegan

**** HIGHLY RECOMMEND

It was such a small thing (approx 73 pages) but a thing of great poignancy.  

Just beautiful, a lingering read.

01 October 2022

The White Rock ~ Anna Hope

*** LIKE

Set in San Blas, Mexico

Well researched and that research is woven into interesting storylines