Rachel’s Holiday is a quick read but one populated with those signature laughs which Keyes is famous for. So go on, read this one (and why not Keyes’ entire backlist while you’re at it?)....
Fiction Tag
Books, Featured, Highlights / 01.02.2022
Dazed & Mystified by the Brilliance of Bewilderment by Richard Powers
I felt ready for this read and, ultimately, it was everything I wanted it to be: easy, accessible and heart-breaking – oh, so heart-breaking....
Books, Featured, Highlights / 26.01.2022
Fiesty & Strong Feminist Reading – Violeta by Isabel Allende
This is one of my very anticipated reads for 2022. I wouldn’t call myself an Allende fan but A Long Petal of the Sea changed the way I looked at Allende. ...
It’s not often you find a book like Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr. It is a novel you will get lost in your world blurring slowly at the edges and Doerr’s writing will be the only thing holding your imagination together....
So it has been a struggle to read over the last 10 or 11 months, but I am excited to plough through the books that have piled up high....
Books, Featured, Highlights / 31.03.2021
A Net for Small Fishes by Lucy Jago: A Review
A Net for Small Fishes was being raved about in our office and a few people whose taste I trust really harked the hallowed angels and sang this book’s praise. I ended up doing what any good book reader would do when faced with such a situation, I picked up a copy for myself, sipped my tea and started the first page. The last I remember — some time thereafter — was me finishing the book a few days later wondering why I was suddenly drinking tea with my pinkie finger extended....
I have set myself a small, non-pressured challenge to read one classic a month and, for the month of January, I picked Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov. This has been a book that I’ve always wanted to read but have been somewhat intimidated by. ...
Books, Featured, Highlights / 20.02.2021
Searching for a good Thriller? Read The Searcher by Tana French: A Review
Having read A Secret Place and Broken Harbour and enjoyed both, when the kind bookies at Penguin Random House SA sent me a copy French’s latest novel, I was of course going to rip through this one....
I mentioned wanting to read Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel in my TBR for 2020. This was more of a personal goal to finally get to this book and, ultimately, see for myself what the hype of this particular series was all about....
Another notch on the TBR list! One way to catch my attention is to compare a book to Hanya Yanigihara. Her writing is near perfection and a Booker shortlist also helps the punt. I want to read this because I want a book to take me on a journey and, boy, what a journey....
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