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....
Fiction Tag
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....
As you have guessed, I have done some epic reading during this pandemic. What with the mixture of ‘missing’ social interaction and the publication of some epic books, can you really blame me? However, up front: Leave the World Behind isn’t great for pandemic anxiety, so please take that into consideration. About the Book: A magnetic novel about two families, strangers to each other, who are forced together on a long weekend gone terribly wrong Amanda and Clay head out to a remote corner of Long Island expecting a vacation: a quiet reprieve from life in New York City, quality time with their...
Books, Featured, Highlights / 27.12.2020
To be Monogamous with Sue Miller: A Review
I lost my Sue Miller virginity with this title and, as publishers and reviewers boasted that this novel would be her breakthrough into the mainstream, who wouldn’t be excited to dip their toes into these review waters? There is nothing more comforting than a family-drama read that isn’t draped in literary devices to confuse the reader....
Books, Featured, Highlights / 20.12.2020
A Witch of a Read with Magic Lessons: A Review
We were in the dark depths our lockdown when I picked this beauty up which means I read an advance manuscript for all those Sherlock Holmes detectives out there. It was the perfect witchy-balm for those dark days. I was able to sink into a world of herbs, betrayal, magic and everything that Alice Hoffman just does so well....
This book found me after it won the Booker. You might call me a sheep for following Shuggie Bain only as after it was shortlisted… but what can a girl do? Lately, there have been many books baying for my attention and, honestly, I’m glad I listed to the hype around this particular title because it is an absolute revelation. It has everything a reader could ask for in a novel. ...
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