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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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Category 8 out of 10, Audiobook, Book genre, First novels, Non-ficton, Prize listed, Reviews |

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Train Dreams by Dennis Johnson

2019
12.22

Best described as a novella. Reminded me of other American period classics like Grapes of Wrath maybe. I couldn’t really connect with it, good writing but I’d have liked a stronger story line. Our reading group scored 5.2/10 me just 4

Score 4/10

Date read September 2019

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Category 4 out of 10, Audiobook, Book Club Books, Book genre, Historical fiction, Reviews |

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Days Without End by Sebastian Barry

2019
12.22

This is a book of surprises. In many ways I didn’t like the shocking horrors of violent period in America’s history, the slaughters of native American Indians and the relentless civil war. But this book is much more that that. We follow Thomas McNulty a young Irish immigrant and John Cole, a slightly older American born drifter. It soon becomes clear that this is more than just a simple friendship. Their first job is dressing up as girls to act as hired dancers in a mid-Western male populated working town. Life is tough. Top book, I’m recommending to most with some reservations (no pun) A bookpub favorite 7.5/10 me an 8/10

Score 8/10

Date read September 2019

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Category 8 out of 10, Audiobook, Book Club Books, Book genre, Historical fiction, Reviews |

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Bitter Orange by Claire Fuller

2019
12.22

I read this lovely atmospheric and absorbing English novel whilst sitting in the garden, in the sunshine, sometimes with a glass of white wine, perhaps that is the correct formula to read this novel. A dying woman’s recounts the summer 1969 in which she lived with a couple in a crumbling English country house. Love, obsession and a sinister creepiness. But what really happened??

Score 8.5/10

Date read August 2019

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Category 8 out of 10, Book Club Books, Book genre, Modern Fiction, Reviews |

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