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The Wall by John Lanchester


2019
12.22

Posted in 6 out of 10, Audiobook, Book Club Books, Book genre, Prize listed, Reviews, Sci-Fi | Comments Off on The Wall by John Lanchester

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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Everything Under by Daisy Johnson


2019
12.22

Posted in 7 out of 10, Audiobook, Book Club Books, Book genre, First novels, Modern Fiction, Prize listed, Reviews | Comments Off on Everything Under by Daisy Johnson

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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My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite


2019
12.22

Posted in 5 out of 10, Audiobook, Book Club Books, Book genre, First novels, Modern Fiction, Prize listed, Reviews | Comments Off on My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

We’ve formed another book group called BookPub and this is our first book. It’s not a complicated book nor very well written, but it has something. 2 sisters, one glamourous and the other plain and sensible. They both fall for a dashing African doctor. Sort listed for the Booker price (why?).

Score 5/10

Date read March 2019

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The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor


2019
12.22

Posted in 7 out of 10, Book genre, Modern Fiction, Reviews | Comments Off on The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor

Now here’s an author I strongly recommend. His writing is perfectly formed, you’ll never trip around in a sentence. His stories are gently and touching. nine years old Lucy is she confused by the decision her parents make to leave Ireland for a time due to the troubles and their fear of harm coming to them. She decided to run away, her parents believe she had drowned and the tragic story expands. A novel like this is why I read fiction in the modern fiction genre.

Score 7.5/10

Date read March 2019

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