“Set in 50’s America, a deaf man meets a mute girl in an asylum, they run away and get split up.
In true love style they never give up of finding each other.
Predictable and mediocre, poorly written, should have stayed in the ink cartridge.
Our book group gave this 4/10
Score 3/10
Date read July 2012
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“An enjoyable novel if somewhat strange.
An American bartender tells us his tale of falling into drinking too much and how his life falls apart.
The bar dwellers are all to real and wonderfully described.
Nearly put me off drinking, nearly!
Score 8/10
Date read July 2012
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“A debut novel and a good one too.
Based on a real life jazz trumpeter, this fictionalised story isn’t trying to recreate that story, far from it.
As a reader we know that Joss Moody is a coloured man who plays the trumpet in the 50’s Glasgow, he meets a girl and they go out together, the story changes when things begin to unravel…literally!
We learn about Joss’s life once he is dead, told by people in his life that are left behind.
I’m recommending this to people and feel reading groups would have plenty to discuss.
Score 7/10
Date read June 2012
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“At his best here with this book A Wild Sheep Chase. Don’t worry that this is the third novel in the Rat series, it makes no difference to the story.
A marketing guy is living an unhappy lonely life when he gets a card from his old buddy ‘the rat’. This sets him of on the WSC.
Every part of this book is good and some bits are better than that.
Murakami writing is inline with my reading profile, I don’t have to understand the book to enjoy it!
Score 7.5/10
Date read April 2012
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