Beth's Books (and other bits and bobs)
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Grief is the Thing with Feathers: Max Porter (Faber and Faber) Photo by Tom Swinnen from Pexels A father, his two sons and the crow narrate the experience of grief after the sudden death of a wife and mother. This was beautiful, moving and only made my cry once… (ok twice). I’m in no way a poetry buff. In …
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Author: Stuart Turton Title: The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle Press: Raven Books (Bloomsbury) Date of Publication: 2018 Prizes: Winner of the Costa First Novel Award 2018 Date of Purchase: December 2018 RRP: £8.99 Price of Purchase: £2.50 Reading Time: 8 days Rating: 9 I needed to get my grubby mitts on this after all …
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Author: Edward St Aubyn Title: Dunbar Press: Vintage (PRH) Date of Publication: 2017 Date of Purchase: December 2018 RRP: £8.99 Price of Purchase: This was a lovely thoughtful gift from my class secret santa Reading Time: 4 days Rating: 2 It’s been a while since I read a ‘bad’ book but I think this might …
Author: Maggie O’Farrell Title: I am I am I am: Seventeen Brushes with Death Press: Tinder Press (Headline) Date of Publication: 2017 Date of Purchase: December 2018 RRP: £8.99 Price of Purchase: I don’t remember but I did it through the evil empire (sorry) Reading Time: 2 days Rating: 8 So a lot of people …
Author: Celeste Ng Title: Little Fires Everywhere Press: Abacus Date of Publication: 2017 Date of Purchase: December 2018 RRP: £8.99 Price of Purchase: £4 Reading Time: 4 days Rating: 8 Little Fires Everywhere succeeded in transporting me straight to Shaker Heights and bang into Ohio in the nineties. Given I was five at the millennium …
I’ve been having the odd day where I spend A LOT of time travelling recently. I’ve gone up to Northampton to visit a friend twice in the past week which amounts to a six hour round trip. Because I’m a cheapskate I’ve been opting for the bus and, sadly, if I read on a bus …
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Heather Morris: The Tattooist of Auschwitz Author: Heather Morris Title: The Tattooist of Auschwitz Press: Zaffre Date of Publication: 2018 Date of Purchase: December 2018 RRP: £8.99 Price of Purchase: £4 Reading Time: 3 days Rating: 7 I didn’t love this as much as I had anticipated. That said, it wasn’t bad. The story is …
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Author: Liane Moriarty Title: Truly Madly Guilty Press: Penguin Date of Publication: 2016 Date of Purchase: November 2018 RRP: £7.99 Price of Purchase: £2.49 Reading Time: 5 days Rating: 6 For what this was it was ok, nothing groundbreaking but fairly compelling. The teasing of the ‘event’ which has apparently changed the character’s lives forever …
Author: Kit De Waal Title: My Name is Leon Press: Penguin Prizes: Shortlisted for Costa First Novel Prize Date of publication: 2016 Date of purchase: November 2018 RRP: £8.99 Price of purchase: £2.49 Reading time: 3 days Rating:  8 Well if anyone had told me that a book about a nine year old boy who …
Despite the past two weeks being the busiest of my year so far (six day working weeks: part 14 hour waitressing shift, part an unpaid intern in the city) I have read three books. Despite having deadlines coming out of my ears, conferences to attend and catching up with distant friends I appear to have …
Beth's Books (and other bits and bobs) 