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As part of my own #readingenvysummerreading challenge, I finished this trilogy - by reading the middle book! I don't know why I read these out of order but they work that way too.

These books by Rachel Cusk are such a pleasure to read but difficult to discuss later. The narrator tells the stories of the people she encounters and it feels, at times, profound. I think the final book, Kudos, might be my favorite.

Well, I finished this series and I‘m counting it as a successful completion of the #readingenvysummerreading challenge even though I technically started and completed them all in summer. 👍🏼

Fun fact: I bought Proxima and Obelisk at Waterstones in Glasgow last summer and dragged them back across the pond, and Ultima was the last book I bought at Uncle Hugo‘s Science Fiction Bookstore before it was burned down in the Minneapolis riots.

Over ten years ago, I read the first book of the Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell. This summer I read books 3 & 4. Clea is the final book of the quartet and takes some of the people's stories to their conclusions, and reveals hidden truths to others. Clea herself is more of a focus and serves as Darley's connector back to Alexandria, even if it has grown more sordid with the war.⤵️

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I cannot say that i am sorry to leave the world of Patrick Melrose and his dysfunctional family as we come full circle to the funeral of his mother and he reflects upon her failure to protect him from the dreadful abuse of his father David which was first exposed in bk1 but in this expanded upon
Definitely brilliant writing and a compelling tale but thank goodness i can leave that world behind.

.Where August and Winter were brief essays on things around the house while he anticipated his daughter's birth, this reads more like a letter to his daughter. While he writes it, he is caring for the children while his wife is absent, for reasons which are somewhat revealed by the end. Aside from that content is his brilliant nature writing, musings on aging, family, and place. #readingenvysummerreading challenge - finish a series

As part of the #readingenvysummerreading challenge to finish series, I finally read book 3 of the Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell, Mountolive. It follows the parallel story of Justine and Balthazar somewhat from the perspective of David Mountolive, British ambassador to Egypt. But it starts much earlier when he is a young diplomat living in Cairo, when he has a relationship with Leila, Nassim's mother. Ooh, intriguing. ⤵️

I‘d read the first three Wayward Children books and felt they‘ve gotten better each time... and yet sometimes they can be so disconnected from one another I long for more continuation and harkening back... maybe this story will come up again.

Katherine opens a door inside a tree and that is the first time she visits the Goblin Market, but you have to be careful what you promise.⤵️

This is the third in the series that started in 70's Birmingham with the lives of teenage boys in The Rotters club. Now in their 50's Coe through the lives of Benjamin, his friends and family from 2010 -18 shows how England splits into a country at war with itself, intolerant + unforgiving. As with satire at times funny but uncomfortable, yet i will be going back to bk 1 (read yrs ago) soon. And realised qualifies for
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I wanted to get back on the #readingenvysummerreading challenge (to finish a series!) and decided to start with book 4 of this series as recommended by BookRiot. (I read In the Woods back in 2014.) A family is found murdered and Scorcher is working with a new partner, on a case in a coastal town that holds negative memories for him. ⤵️

An asteroid is fast approaching that will destroy earth (but not yet, this is book 2 of 3) and now former cop Hank Palace is trying to help a friend find her husband. Not really the book for now, but my summer reading challenge is about finishing series I'd started. And in some ways I guess it is, because it features a white cop trying to navigate a world where power structures no longer include him. ...