pick4⭐️ Another enjoyable read from Mary Lawson. I like how the three characters are connected, how they are actually reflections of one another. There‘s something about her writing that I really like… simple, engaging, and addictive 😍
pick5⭐️ Wow! I‘m glad that I decided to give this book a try. What a captivating story! I love how she uses dual-timeline and that she brings in another individual as a close observer of an intense sibling rivalry. Mary Lawson is a wonderful story-teller I want to read her other books now
Spending 1 hour on a treadmill is a chore so I have been listening to podcasts while struggling with my run/walk. And I came across this episode discussing Mary Lawson. Never heard of her, never read her books… but the interview intrigued me and Libby has the tagged book. Hurrah! I started it and kinda like her writing… it‘s engaging, too!
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5zIVqLotaPk38aDqpKaPg6?si=te1orrVXSRy-CdZbTsRv4...
pickI really enjoyed this gentle novel. Set in a rural northern town in Canada in 1972, it‘s told from three perspectives: 7 year old Clara, whose teenage sister has run away from home, Elizabeth, Clara‘s elderly neighbor who is in the hospital, and Liam, a mysterious young man from Elizabeth‘s past. Comparisons to Anne Tyler are apt, IMO.
My 2nd #10beforetheend book and #TBRtarot for December.
At dinner time and again in the evening he'd walk back to the house along the track and for the first couple of weeks the prints of his father's boots were still there, like his signature written on the land. Then it rained and they were gone. That had seemed a treachery, that his footsteps could be erased so easily. How many thousands of times had he walked along that track?
This is my #10beforetheend stack! It doesn‘t include my current library books I‘m reading or the three group reads I have coming up. 😬 I‘m pretty much doomed to fail. 😂
pickThis is going to be kind of a niche review but so be it. 😅 A Town Called Solace reminded me intensely of the part in American Gods when Shadow stays in Lakeside, with all of the small town characters *and* all of the small town mystery, but without an epic war between gods looming in the background. I was hooked instantly by Clara (with whom I share the joys of magical thinking OCD), & was rooting for Liam to find connection. 👇🏻
pickThis book gave me massive Lucy Barton vibes and I loved it! Told in multiple POV‘s we meet Clara, a young girl whose sister has gone missing, Liam a young man, recently divorced who is Clara‘s new neighbor and Elizabeth, the elderly lady who used to live in the house next to Clara‘s. Set in the 1970‘s this book captures the beauty of small town life, the complexities of adolescence and how the past is always present. 👇🏽
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