How do you follow on from Ms A’s beautiful post on A Fine Balance? I had severe review envy but being the generous soul that she is, Ms A gave me a clue to what we should review next by mentioning ‘first world problems’ and there is no better book to showcase this phenomena than Babe Walker’s latest. […]
Category Archives: Book Club Fodder
May
02
Frog Music by Emma Donaghue
posted by Ms K
My house could have exploded while I was reading this book and I wouldn’t have noticed. It’s that good and is another masterstroke by Emma Donaghue. I admit I was a little nervous with the author as the last book I read of hers was Room and I still feel ill when I think about it too much – […]
April
24
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
posted by Ms A
It’s been a long time between reviews for me as I have been head down bum up in some seriously big books. Starting with The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt. Talk about starting with a bang – literally. This story opens with a terrorist bombing in museum in NYC where the main character, 13 year old Theo […]
April
15
The Silent Wife by A.S.A Harrison
posted by Ms K
Jeeze Louise, I still haven’t warmed up after reading this little number. It is ice cold – not the refreshing kind, the evil kind my friends. Nasty. But I loved it and zoomed through it. It is a dirty, dangerous tale and is therefore, utterly compelling. This offering is not dissimilar to Gone Girl – the he said, […]
March
21
Life after Life by Kate Atkinson
posted by Ms K
What if you had the chance to live your life again and again, until you got it right? Well, I think you would end up rather confused and exhausted, because that is how I felt just reading about Ursula and her reincarnations in Life after Life. Completely and utterly knackered and bamboozled!! Living once […]
February
26
Where’d You Go Bernadette by Maria Semple
posted by Ms A
“Your TED talk is ranked number 4 on the all time most watched TED talks yet you live with a woman who has no friends, destroys homes and falls asleep in stores”. This is just one of the many great lines from Where’d You Go Bernadette which I plucked off the NY Times Best Seller […]
December
26
Barracuda by Christos Tsiolkas
posted by Ms A
This is the story of a swimmer; Danny. With a burning, tormented ambition to be the fastest, strongest, greatest swimmer of his time, his turbulent adolescent mind is only at rest in the pool. Christos Tsiolkas is most known for his international bestselling novel, the Slap. Now an Australian classic, The Slap was a polorising look […]
November
13
No Place Like Home by Caroline Overington
posted by Ms K
I could not wait to get my hands on this book after reading a couple of the author’s books over the past month – most notable her non-fiction work about living in New York as a Correspondent (Jolly Good read!). I nearly yelped in the book shop when I found it and could not wait […]
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 […]
July
11
Big Brother by Lionel Shriver
posted by Ms A
If you are in a book club, you need to workshop this book around a very large platter of triple cream cheese, pate and nuts and then see who dares to partake. It is perfect book club fodder in every sense. Firstly, it is written by the highly credible and well respected author of “We Need to Talk […]
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