No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood My rating: 4 of 5 stars This was somewhat of a tricky book to get into. The book is divided into two parts, largely consisting of short paragraphs, which sometimes do not gel together particularly well. I suspect that this was an attempt to mimic theContinue reading “No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood”
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Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward: ‘He Will Look at Me’
Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward My rating: 5 of 5 stars He will look at me. He will look at me. He will look at me. So intones Esch, the fifteen year old girl on the brink of a devastating womanhood, desperate to be seen, to be noticed, to be loved, as she andContinue reading “Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward: ‘He Will Look at Me’”
Review of Cold Wallet by Rosy Fenwicke
Crypto currency? Sudden death? And, dare I say it, a novel that is probably firmly in the thriller genre? Those who follow my reviews know that this is a book I would normally give a rapid swerve to. It is not something I would usually pick up, even with the most enticing of covers. However,Continue reading “Review of Cold Wallet by Rosy Fenwicke”
Gerta: A Review
This is the first time in while writing my review, I downgraded my star rating. On reflection, there was much that was difficult with this book, which is a shame, because it opened with such promise. Gerta by Kateřina Tučková My rating: 3 of 5 stars This book had me really conflicted. There were timesContinue reading “Gerta: A Review”
Adrienne Rich’s Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
I feel like I have come to feminism far too late in life. It is only now, with the reading I have done, my research into the proto-feminist movement of the nineteenth century for my studies, and my engagement with current feminist issues relating to the erasure of the language we use to define womenContinue reading “Adrienne Rich’s Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution”
Girl A and the Hype of a Debut Novel
Girl A by Abigail Dean My rating: 3 of 5 stars As I always try to give reasons when I give a book less than 4 stars, here is my thoughts on Girl A. I went into this book with high expectations, such was the hype that accompanied the debut. Unfortunately, this is one ofContinue reading “Girl A and the Hype of a Debut Novel”
Atonement by Ian McEwan, An Old Favourite Read Again
Shortlisted for the Booker in 2001, I will never understand how it did not win. In 2010, Time Magazine listed it as one of the top 100 English language novels since 1923. Atonement by Ian McEwan My rating: 5 of 5 stars It is always interesting coming back to a book you read many yearsContinue reading “Atonement by Ian McEwan, An Old Favourite Read Again”
The Last Homestead by Marina Wheeler
I have just posted my review on Goodreads, and I am somewhat stunned by the very mixed reviews on this book. I think my review – being somewhere in the middle, probably represents my view that there is some value in the book. It was just very difficult to engage with it. The Lost Homestead:Continue reading “The Last Homestead by Marina Wheeler”
Mordew: When a Dickensian reads Fantasy
Mordew by Alex Pheby My rating: 5 of 5 stars I readily confess that I am not a lover of the fantasy genre. Therefore, when I received my copy of the book, it languished in the old TBR pile for a considerable period of time. Even the fact that many of the reviewers used theContinue reading “Mordew: When a Dickensian reads Fantasy”
Lipstick, gender and a WWII novel: A book review
The Last Correspondent by Soraya M. Lane My rating: 3 of 5 stars The premise of this book was powerful, and had the potential to be an interesting and relevant story highlighting the role that women played as war correspondents during the second world war. However, there were far too many irritants in the bookContinue reading “Lipstick, gender and a WWII novel: A book review”
Deborah Siddoway 