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Jan 21, 20221 min read
936. Elif Shafak - 10 Minutes 38 Seconds In This Strange World
This is a wonderful book, by an author I have never heard of. The premise is that the brain continues activity for some minutes after...
Dec 25, 20211 min read
927. Mick Herron - Joe Country
My favourite author in this genre, so unsurprisingly I have read this before. This is the one where Louisa Guy is contacted by the...
Apr 30, 20191 min read
679. Emily Dean - Everybody Died, So I Got A Dog
A library book of Paddy’s; I can’t say I enjoyed this, although maybe unfairly. I found Emily Dean insufferably girly, trendy within a...
May 8, 20171 min read
486. Monty Don - Nigel: My Family & Other Dogs
One of Paddy’s – didn’t do a lot for me, although he did make points about pets and their deaths (pets generally don’t live as long as...
Apr 22, 20171 min read
482. Susan Lewis - The Moment She Left
The 3rd of Paddy’s library books, after burn out with Tana French. If 480 was brilliant and 481 execrable, this was middling. The genre...
Dec 5, 20151 min read
359. Karl Ove Knausgaard - A Death In The Family
I hated this at first; to say that Zola is prolix is unjust in the context of Knausgaard. The first 200 pages seemed to be a tedious...
Jul 27, 20131 min read
131. Iain Banks - The Quarry
Never read any before and sadly the guy died of cancer earlier this year. The central character in this book is suffering and suffers the...