panSo I checked the shortlist for the year this book won the #baileysprize and it won over A Little Life?! 😲🤯
It should have gripped me - dark, gritty, set in Ireland, flawed, messed-up characters - but it just felt... pointless 🤷♀️ great first chapter & characters were ok but I wasn‘t invested in them at all. Completely overwrought. I wouldn‘t have missed out if I‘d bailed tbh.
I‘m on an unintentional #baileysprize kick. Third book in a week or so I‘ve read that‘s been nominated for the award. Let‘s see if this is as bleak as the other two 😆 #socksunday #marchinbooks
Thanks @emily_m_tubb and @BarbaraBB for tagging me in #fivestarpredictions. My current read (my first but definitely not last Strout!), two more #manbookerlonglist reads (am most convinced I will love Autumn), a true life crime and a remaining #baileysprize shortlisted book. So many great books in the world :-)
If you haven't been tagged already I nominate @bookloo @Wbabdullah @Aleida
pickBook 20: The Tempest is one of my favourite Shakespeare texts. Filled with otherworldliness and magic, desire and betrayal, washed away, captive on a remote island. Atwood retells the tale from inside a prison, with a wronged and exiled director keen to find his revenge in the ultimate play within a play. A playful and imaginative reimagining - anyone read others from this Hogarth Shakespeare series? #readwomen #baileysprize
Best way to start the day... #pancakes #kusmitea #paperback #baileysprize #womanwriter #feminism Really enjoying this book.
Had an ankle injury. So more time to read 😃 while I recover started the latest #baileysprize winner. And already loving it. Hope all the book is this good. May not be my most beautiful picture but it really shows what I am doing....
pickBook 19: Soared through this one - a well crafted story, powered with music and memory and the secrets history hopes to keep hidden. Travelling through time with our two protagonists, we move from pre-WW2 on the Swiss border to modern day, with all its ghosts. But family skeletons have a tendency to emerge in unlikely ways...History sometimes gives its own perfomance. #readwomen #baileysprize
pickBook 18: Having struggled through A Girl is a Half Formed Thing, I was hesitant for round two. With nods to similar subject material as the first, this tale weaves in more sensuality and emotional growth. With a leading man far too familiar to one who in my own history, McBride captures that breathless and all-encompassing love, nay, compulsion of young love. Stick with the lamguage style - you'll fall into it. #readwomen #baileysprize
so-soBook 17: Sent away from East London (and a street just down the road from my flat!) to recuperate their TB inflicted lungs in the fresh air of Kent, two twins find themselves in unfamiliar but fascinating company. As some of the first patients of the NHS, entitled to free healthcare, it's an intriguing look at how this change affected all those involved. But there's more comedy than tragedy in this sanitorium #readwomen #baileysprize
pickBook 16: What a wonderful welcome back to reading after the harrowing A Little Life. The hype behind The Essex Serpent is completely deserved. Superstition and intrigue, tradition and community and even some politics - all with strong women at the helm. A historic tale with a modern spin - such a great novel. Will be looking up Perry's earlier novel asap. Also - bonus points for beautiful cover! #readwomen #baileysprize
