Fiction Tag

Books, Featured, Highlights / 31.03.2021

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....

Books, Featured, Highlights / 03.01.2021

  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

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, Highlights / 29.11.2020

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. ...