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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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Lanny by Max Porter


2019
12.22

Pay attention! I’ve given very few books such a high score of 9. We’ve read it in both book groups, BookPub (7/10) and Waterstones and the reactions have been so extreme, many say they couldn’t get into it, others thought it a fantastic novel. I’d recommend listening to it if you can. Don’t get hung up on the written text and the voice of the villages, you don’t need to understand it. Lanny is a young boy who may or may not have magical powers, when Dead Papa Toothwort returns to the sleepy English village things get a tad weird. Modern fiction at it’s finest.

Score 9/10

Date read July 2019

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The Western Wind by Samantha Harvey


2019
12.22

This is one dreary novel. I’m sorry to say I gave up on page 104. A historical story written backwards, supposedly a murder mystery too. Not for me…

Score 3/10

Date read April 2019

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The Wall by John Lanchester


2019
12.22

BookPub reading group. A dystopian novel. What the author does very well is deliver the sense of cold and boredom. In a world where England is protected by a wall around the coast from ‘others’ trying to get in. A modern day National Service the youth are enlisted to guard the country. But fail and you are left adrift outside the wall where the unknown is. The group also scored average 5.5/10 particularly good narration on this recording.

Score 5.5/10

Date read April 2019

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