Injury Time | 
pickNot as good as Harriet Said, but also not as dark. More slapstick with pretensions of being dark. Very funny in places, almost sordid in others, and with an abrupt ending. It‘s a pick for the dialogue; the plotting is so-so.
#NameChallenge Spell your name with book titles. Thanks for the tag @erzascarletbookgasm ! These are all on my Kindle, and all picks, with the caveat that the tagged book is in progress, so opinions might change.
I tag @Ruthiella and @Mama_Wolf2015
My second Bainbridge. While I usually avoid novels about cheating spouses, her prose can make anything amusing. #currentlyreading
Injury by advance reader's copy.
My foot fell asleep while I was wearing Dansko sandles and my ankle collapsed when I tried to walk. I fell down, right into a pile of ARCs waiting to be shelved, and this is the result.
I'm pretty sure this is the first time a book has actually caused me to bleed. 😂 I was just trying to read on the train on the ride home and someone knocked my book with their purse and the corner of the book did its damage. THANKS HILLARY.
panMy first Bainbridge. The prose captivated me; the delicious satirical humor, reminiscent of but edgier than Barbara Pym, left me room to care about at least some of the characters I was laughing at. But the rape in the novel is treated solely in black comedic terms, which ruined it for me. Lately I've been trying to get comfortable with satire, or at least understand why I've always felt discomfited by it, but for fuck's sake rape is not funny.
Now that I've learned a fetlock is that part of a horse's leg, I fail to see the punny humor here: am I missing something? :-)
There's a philosophy bookstore at Koenji in Tokyo - all the books inside are in Nihongo, but they have a large shelf of English books outside for cheap. Got this one for a dollar!
pickSurprisingly ended up liking this one. It was a little darker and more eventful then I was expecting. For such a short novel (barely above 200 pgs), it packed quite a punch.
Just starting, this story centers around a dinner party given by the mistress of a businessman for some of his friends. This is my second attempt at Beryl Bainbridge. I've read another one of hers which I didn't really care for but I was told this is a really good one so here it goes!
