Boy, I’m late to the party with this one. The Invention of Wings is everywhere – it has been instagrammed to an inch of it’s life and folk who don’t even like to read are you-tubing their love for it. It has been patiently waiting by my bed for months but I kept skipping over it and choosing […]
August
22
All the Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld
posted by Ms K
Winner of the 2014 Miles Franklin Literary Award, this book is still haunting me days after I snapped it shut and headed for the largest glass I could find to pour some plonk into. I was stirred and shaken. If you can read this book and not feel nausea rise from time to time, well hats off to […]
August
06
The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P by Adelle Waldman
posted by Ms K
How could I pass up a book so favorably reviewed by Lena Dunham (GIRLS fame) and Alain de Botton (Philosopher at large)? These two people are poles apart but I admire them both so when I saw they loved this book (joining the 100 other love-struck reviewers!), I reckoned it was worth a look-see. This […]
July
29
Hard Choices by Hillary Rodham Clinton
posted by Ms K
This review started out very differently to the one you will read here. The original was light hearted, was girl-crushing on Hillary and talked of my dream dinner party and Hillary agreeing to come. It was a jolly review. Yes it a big book but worth the time to read it I wrote. And then….. […]
July
10
The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
posted by Ms A
I have just put down one of the most delightful and heart-warming reads I can remember and I can’t stop thinking about it. This charming little story is based on Queen Elizabeth II; but not as we know her. For the sake of this book, England’s ever practical and dutiful monarch suddenly becomes an obsessive […]
June
23
The Pink Suit by Nicole Mary Kelby
posted by Ms K
The dedication reads ‘For those of us who fell under her spell’. Judging this book by it’s cover, it’s not too tricky to figure out ‘her’ is Jacqueline Kennedy. And under her spell I firmly am. I love her…..There is just something about Jackie. Also, I would just about die to have her hair and […]
June
11
Psychos by Babe Walker
posted by Ms K
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. […]
May
26
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Minstry
posted by Ms A
Sometimes with books it is all about the timing and this my friends, is the book you read when you are renovating a house. Not to make light of this masterful novel that details the horrific realities of life in India in the 1970’s, but I did wonder if the expression “first world problem” was coined by someone who had just put […]
May
15
The Good Luck of Right Now by Matthew Quick
posted by Ms K
Hear that funny noise? Been hearing something similar of late – sort of like a distant, dull crack? Well that sound, my fellow readers, has been my heart breaking bit by bit. Welcome to the review of The Good Luck of Right Now! This book made me sad. Bad sad in the beginning. Good sad in […]
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 – […]
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