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Night by Elie Wiesel


2019
12.22

There will be hundreds of reviews for this Pulitzer winning novel. It’s a hugely important true story Wiesel retelling his life from a teenager when he and his family were taken from their home in 1944 to Auschwitz concentration camp, and then to Buchenwald. Night is the terrifying record of Elie Wiesel’s memories of the death of his family, the death of his own innocence, and his despair as a deeply observant Jew confronting the absolute evil of man.

Score 8/10

Date read October 2019

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Convenience Store Woman by Sayata Murata


2019
12.22

An international hit from Japanese author. Our BookPub read. Why I like Japanese authors and their writing is it’s different to English/American and this might me 1/ it’s translated 2/ only the best stuff reaches my attention. Our protagonist is not like other people, she doesn’t have ambition, doesn’t fit in, thinks differently. When she tries to fit in she looses her soul. A lovely book, do read it. Now I’m writing this review I’ve decided I like it more than I thought! our group scored 6.5

Score 7/10

Date read June 2019

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The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce


2019
12.22

BookPub reading group. A story about Harold who after retiring and living a boring life, set out to post a letter. One step leads to another and he decides to deliver by hand. Others follow… read the book it’s gentle and easy going. Our Group enjoyed it with an average score of 6/10 me 3 was all I can offer

Score 3/10

Date read May 2019

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Everything Under by Daisy Johnson


2019
12.22

Masterly writing and an interesting story, not one you can just trot through. It stretches your imagination and has thought provoking events and characters. Gretel, is looking for her mother around the canals of Oxfordshire. When she was a teenager, they lived alone on a houseboat, but mother Sarah abandoned her, she ended up in foster care. Sixteen years later, Gretel receives a short phone call from her mother and vows to find her. Listed for the Booker, not bad for a debut novel

Score 7/10

Date read March 2019

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