NOVEMBER 2022

 

The Paris Apartment ~ Lucy Foley

** OK

Too convoluted, too much chop and change, too unbelievable

The Bullet That Missed ~ Richard Osman

 

Our Missing Hearts ~ Celeste Ng

 ****RECOMMEND

The second half dragged it down but the first part was a great read

OCTOBER 2022

 

Shrines of Gaiety ~ Kate Atkinson

 

X NO BLEH

Boring characters who had no life breathed into them.  

Very little sense of time.

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

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.

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.

The White Rock ~ Anna Hope

*** LIKE

Set in San Blas, Mexico

Well researched and that research is woven into interesting storylines