Tuesday, 19 January 2021

Anna Burns Milkman

A  clear majority verdict in favour  . Rather wordy and  a bit of editing would have helped the doubters appreciate the humour and language

Tuesday, 15 December 2020

Anne Patchett The Dutch House

 A good read but not a great book . To neat a finish and some characters not fleshed out  perhaps deliberately so  ...a modern fairy tale?

Tuesday, 10 November 2020

Book by one of us

 We read and commented on a book being written by one of us.

Tuesday, 20 October 2020

Colin Barrett Young Skins

Linked short stories  , gritty  energetic ,violent  too much so for some . A slice of life we don't normally see.

Thursday, 17 September 2020

George Alagiah -The Burning LAnd

This is Alright . A novel written by a journo not a novelist  , some interesting elements some rather formulaic elements .Quite readable and  not a waste to have read it.

Tuesday, 18 August 2020

E M Forster The Longest Journey

No one liked it , not everyone finished it . Despite some wonderful sentences  the whole is less than the sum of these parts ... Read one of his others. 

Tuesday, 14 July 2020

The Street Ann Petry

A great success   ... top marks  . Set in Harlem  in 1940s   still relevant today and well written