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Jun 15, 20211 min read
869. Christine Feret Fleury - The Girl Who Reads On The Metro
P enjoyed this; I found it readable but no more. It is short – about a Parisian girl who finds an eccentric Iranian who distributes books...
Mar 10, 20211 min read
852. Paul Ferguson - Killing The Dead
This must have been a present from one of the kids, as it has sat in my bookcase for years and I have no memory of having read it before....
Sep 26, 20201 min read
817. John Fowles - The Collector
Another John Fowles. Quite a strange book about a man who kidnaps a girl with whom he is obsessed and imprisons her in his cellar. But...
Sep 22, 20201 min read
816. John Fowles - The Ebony Tower
Thought I would try another one. This (unless I have totally misunderstood the plotting) was 5 mid/ short length stories, within some...
Sep 16, 20201 min read
814. John Fowles - The French Lieutenant’s Woman
Coincidentally (?), another book about Victorian adultery. I really enjoyed most of this but got lost, typically, towards the end....
Mar 4, 20201 min read
752. Penelope Fitzgerald - The Beginning of Spring
Recommended on BBC’s A Good Read, and I had never read any of hers before. Good, but I struggled to understand the underlying theme. Set...
Dec 14, 20191 min read
735. Tana French - The Wych Elm
This was a very long and quite difficult book and I can’t pretend I really enjoyed it. The central character (Toby) gets beaten up (for...
Sep 6, 20191 min read
711. Sebastian Faulks - Paris Echo
Brilliant. As the blurb/a reviewer says, partly a hymn to Paris, but also via the alternating and very different narrators, an...
May 19, 20191 min read
684. Sebastien Faulks - A Week In December
Enjoyed this a lot (must have read it before). Quite similar, structurally, to John Lanchester’s ‘Capital’, but Faulkes is a better...
May 16, 20181 min read
592. A. J. Finn - The Woman In The Window
The 2nd long library book in 4 days. This one was much better written than the last, although I was disappointed by the ending. A woman...
Mar 23, 20181 min read
580. Laura Freeman - The Reading Cure
A library book of Paddy’s, about how reading helped a girl to (partially) overcome her anorexia. I found it quite annoying; the author is...
Nov 13, 20171 min read
550. Emily Fridlund - History Of Wolves
Pretty obscure and not very good. A story about a hippie girl who befriends a family across the Minnesota lake from where they live, who...
Jun 17, 20171 min read
500. Tana French - In The Woods
The first and I think the best of her books; none of the others are as good. Get this on Amazon
Apr 12, 20171 min read
479. Tana French - The Trespasser
No 6/6 of the Dublin murder mysteries, of which I hoped to save at least 3 until we go on holiday. They are very long. Antoinette Conway...
Apr 4, 20172 min read
477. Tana French - The Secret Place (5)
Was hoping to save at least a couple of these books until we go on holiday in June, but that is not going to happen now. Have to re-read...
Mar 26, 20171 min read
476. Tana French - Broken Harbour (4)
No. 4 in the series. I am not sure this was a good as 1-3, but it wasn’t at all bad. The central figure in this one is a minor figure in...
Mar 21, 20171 min read
475. Tana French - Faithful Place (3)
No.3 in this very good series. All the books are completely different and feature a different lead police character. This one involves...
Mar 15, 20171 min read
474. Tana French - The Likeness (2)
This woman is a fantastic writer. I probably enjoyed this less than 470, but it was still very good, I just found it dragged a little in...
Feb 26, 20171 min read
470. Tana French - In The Woods (1)
Book of the year so far. A brilliant crime novel, quasi-police procedural, set in or near Dublin. Plotting exceptional, writing very good...
Sep 20, 20151 min read
338. Sebastian Faulks - Charlotte Gray
Took this to Spain for aeroplane reading. I had remembered it mainly as a ‘French resistance’ novel with the dropped in British heroine,...