Lucky Ones | 
panA rare DNF for me. I really wanted to like this one, and expected to, but I was finding all of the various voices in this collection of connected short stores to be the same, and even as I was reading my mind kept drifting. Life‘s too short to stick with a book you don‘t feel engaged with.
Did someone say #Readathon? Not sure how much reading I will get done, as I‘m busy tomorrow, at work Monday, a funeral 😔 Tuesday and visiting my parents for the first time since Christmas for their 60th Wedding Anniversary for the rest of the week, but I will try and get through as much of the pictured books as possible.
#AwesomeAugustReadathon @Andrew65
Look what arrived in the post, a beautiful cover! Won this in a Twitter competition - one of the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year's nominees
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so-so4 out of 5: flashes of brilliance (that first chapter!) and beautiful prose, but it didn't come together enough for me and left me wanting more. But I will be first in line for her next book.
Started this on my lunch hour. The first chapter is incredible.
pickI initially had an extract from early in the book where a kidnapped American teacher keeps himself sane by teaching hamlet to the trees, leaves et al in the jungle. This however particularly struck me. This was a really good read, short stories that have connections involving life over 20 years in Colombia 1993-2013.
pickSo good. So very good. I'm not usually a fan of the interconnected short stories thing, but it worked well in the context of depicting civil unrest and its aftermath over the course of two decades. I'm kinda surprised the rating on here is so low!
I took two books back to the library and collected my reserved title above but ended up with the pereine book at oxfam and the remainder from the local libraries sale shop. Chuffed to get tim winton after shawn et al discussion this morning + march,sarah moss and ive always fancied the imagining of Richard's life from manics and the philip hensher looks good, all 50p paperback, £1 hardback. Now to sneak them home, only litsy peeps wld understand
The atmosphere in this book is amazing and wonderful.
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so-soI really liked The Lucky Ones by Julianne Pacheco, but am not sure it's for everyone. It is actually a series of connected short stories about Colombians during some of the country's worst years, 1993-2013. These were eye opening and well, well worth reading.
This season's similarly titles books that also happen to create part of the rainbow. Publishing gets weird sometimes. 😂
pickEach of these linked stories illuminates a small part of Colombian life and the country's conflicts. They're sometimes surreal to reflect the unreality of the violence (one is narrated by a coke-addicted rabbit), but taken together you get a sense of what it's like to have lived in Colombia from the 90's through today. (This is as tropical as I could get for this photo.)
