Here is one author to keep your eyes on, Readheads. Emma Cline has written a beauty with The Girls and while not the easiest of reads or most fun, it is certainly a damn fine one. My heart broke a little with each page and not because it is super sad in the traditional […]
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November
04
The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood
posted by Ms K
Charlotte Wood has done it again. No-one does grit quite like this woman and her new book is a corker….but it is not for the faint of heart so consider yourself warned. Ever heard of dystopian fiction? Embarrassingly, I hadn’t. It means writing about an utterly horrible or degraded society that is generally headed to […]
February
11
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
posted by Ms K
Cheryl Strayed took on a new name the day she divorced her husband. Strayed came to her and it stuck…….. “It’s layered definitions spoke directly to my life and also struck a poetic chord: to wander from the proper path, to deviate from the direct course, to be lost, to become wild, to be without […]
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 […]
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