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I liked this one a lot. It‘s a favorite so far on the #Booker longlist. I guess I liked The Gallows View just as much but I am always hesitant to name thrillers my favorite books 🤷🏻♀️
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#WeeklyFavorites
I liked this one a lot. It‘s a favorite so far on the #Booker longlist. I guess I liked The Gallows View just as much but I am always hesitant to name thrillers my favorite books 🤷🏻♀️
pickWhile I do love this author‘s writing I didn‘t connect with this book as much as some of her others. For me all of the romantic relationships got boring, as we read about the love lives of several women. They are complex characters and I think the difficulty going deep was part of the point.
This is also a pandemic book, which I don‘t mind but some might not want to experience again. TW- graphic SA and a difficult aftermath.
pickYes, Philip Larkin named a book after me 😆. Why I thought it a good idea to read the story of a teenage boy from the provinces excruciatingly trying to find his way through the incomprehensible nuances of life at Oxford University when I‘m about to send my own teenage boy off to uni I don‘t know. My heart both broke and cringed for poor John Kemp as things unravel. You‘ll also love to hate his privileged (or is he?) roommate from hell.
#tlt #threelistthursday this might be my movie genre 😆 some of them I couldn‘t remember seeing but I thought I had ( The Croft) but I left them off. Sweet Home Alabama I have seen a bazillion times ❤️❤️❤️ Mystic Pizza - my first Julia Roberts film ❤️❤️❤️ Moonstruck I would watch 100 million times plus all the witch films and everything ever set in autumn starring Meg Ryan. Maybe tonight is movie night
I‘m currently reading my 7th Elizabeth Jane Howard with @shawnmooney and this one is a volume of her short stories. We‘ve been working through her books in publication order (and may even get to the start of The Cazalet Chronicles next year 😆).
pickThe theme of literal translation/interpretation is wonderfully interwoven with a myriad of ways that we misinterpret. The novel moves from tense to calm but with an underlying sense of fear and dislocation. There is also movement between dreams/nightmares and a dislocation from reality, that leaves you wondering what is actually happening. An impressive first novel and it‘s highly engaging/unputdownable.
#firstnovel #translation #bookerprize
pickHurray! Finally a #Booker25 longlist book I want to make the shortlist.
Thoughtful and relevant novel. After the last read, beyond glad that (unlike another longlisted novel I could mention) it didn't make me want to ask the narrator to Just Stop Already...
