Tuesday, September 15, 2015
"The Elegance of the Hedgehog" by Muriel Barbery
Started reading: 13th September 2015
Finished: 3rd December 2015
My score: 7.5/10
My review will appear here soon.
Saturday, September 5, 2015
"We are all completely beside ourselves" by Karen Joy Fowler
I really enjoyed this book, but I don't know what to say in my review about it that wont completely give away the 'twist'. One of the reasons I think I really enjoyed this book was because I was completely unaware of what the twist might be or what was coming until the author revealed it, so i really don't want to spoil that for anyone else. I googled some reviews of this book to see how other reviewers dealt with this, but they all seem to give away the mystery. The book reminded me a little of the style of Barbara Kingsolver - interesting characters/plots and well-researched with believable scientific and historic details. The subject matter also reminded me a little of a book I read by Peter Goldsworthy, but again I better not go into that or it will give away the storyline. Incidentally one of the reviews I read this afternoon was a review that was written by Barbara Kingsolver of "We are all completely beside ourselves". If you don't care that the twist will be given away, and just want to read a review, then you could click on that link. :-)
Started reading: 5th September 2015
Finished: 12th September 2015
My score: 8.5/10
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