This book gave me nightmares so quite frankly, I wish I did not read it before going to sleep. I think I am, four days later, still traumatized. Winner of UK Crime Thriller of the Year, this book delivers. The feeling it left me with was that horrifying scene in When A Stranger Calls where the […]
Author Archives: Ms K
August
07
The Light Between Oceans by M.L.Stedman
posted by Ms K
This book should come with a warning – Will Need Kleenex! Perhaps next print-run, consider a wee box of tissues as Gift with Purchase, Author? I spent the last wonderful chapter weeping until I hit a sobbing crescendo from page 345 onwards…..Boy-oh-Boy, what a great story. There is a reason this book is on the […]
August
07
The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
posted by Ms K
What a delicious literary romp this one was. I devoured it in 24 hours. Described as a 1930s screwball comedy updated for 2013 is spot on. This book has that vintage charm and quirkiness in spades. There is something ‘other worldly’ about this tale. No doubt about it, Don Tillman our leading man is peculiar […]
July
29
I Take You by Nikki Gemmell
posted by Ms K
Nikki, Nikki, Nikki…..I am left wondering if you actually liked this book. I know you wrote it but I was left with this sense that you didn’t even think the characters were enough so you introduced those beautiful chapter quotes by Virginia Woolf. I loved those. I hated the rest. And this made me quite […]
June
26
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
posted by Ms K
‘The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry’s’ pilgrimage into my own hands was a little bit of divine intervention. This book came to me at a time when I needed it most – even though I didn’t know it then – and Harold, oh how I love thee for it. This read is an absolute beauty. […]
June
25
Lola Bensky by Lily Brett
posted by Ms K
For anyone who loves Lily Brett, I don’t need to tell you ‘read this!’. It is Lily Brett at her neurotic best. Lily Brett is not easy to capture or describe but she remains my favourite authors. Of. All. Time. EVER. Her collection are my most lent books in my library. I always give them […]
February
18
The Dinner by Herman Koch
posted by Ms K
The Dinner. Well, courtesy of this book, I have just been put off mine. Judging by all the reviews, I had a hit in my hands. A best seller, a not-to-be missed read so I could barely wait to get right into it. What could be better? Intrigue and food! hoorah. Fool! Having just […]
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