pickThis book is such an unabashed joy. Co-written with Paul Morley, it's fascinating, honest & bloody funny. Absolutely recommend
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pickThis book is such an unabashed joy. Co-written with Paul Morley, it's fascinating, honest & bloody funny. Absolutely recommend
Essential reading. The ACLU piece is particularly telling, given the strength of protest so far
pickI really liked this - not at all my usual kind of fiction, I'm a genre grrl at heart. But this is sweet and smart & nice distracting fluff with an authentic & little heard voice.
panThe book is over 20 years old now and it shows, in regards to attitudes to both gay & trans people. Characters are hugely homophobic, the trans element is not well managed & it falls into tired & predictable old patterns. But I rarely give up on a book & gritted my teeth to the end. Taking one for the team here....
I honestly can't recommend this but would consider reading some of her more recent work.
pickExceptional. Excellent critiques of Lady O, reminding us how damn lucky we are to be alive right now, to have had these eight years. The future may be perilous and painful but Barack & Michelle are still walking with us.
pickThere's a very good chance that if you loved The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry or Rawblood by Catriona Ward, that you'll enjoy The Butcher's Hook. Set earlier than the other two (Regency England) it's a neat tale about rebellious 19 yr old Anna Jaccob who finds herself repulsed by an elder suitor whilst drawn to a lower class butcher's boy. While it doesn't have the range of Perry or Ward's work it's a very satisfactory read with a dark heart.
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My goodness, this book, my heart❤. Could not put it down. Rhimes' prose is honest and funny and true. An exceptional book with lessons that may stay with me for a very long while
pickBrilliantly written, and absolutely fascinating, this book looks at the various aspects of forensic science with case studies and expert interviews. It's a brilliant primer for this field, although not for the squeamish in places. I've never read any of McDermid's fiction, but am now planning to read the first of her Tony Hill books. A super & engaging read.
This book is SO DAMN BRILLIANT- it's been on my TBR for about an age but I'm loving it. Note probably *not* for the squeamish tho 🤢
I am not supposed to be buying ANY new books right now. But after the trash review of this in The Graun today, I made an exception. Written by 2 Muslim women (Hussain had a ghost writer, yes) how DARE someone suggest it shouldn't get shelf space.😡😡😡
Onto some non-fiction. This has been in my TBR for over a year but it's definitely time, frankly ...
I need to get to sleep, I NEEEEEED my 7 hours but I'm 23% into this and I could eat it up with a spoon in just one sitting. GODDAMN
pickFell is undoubtedly very very good, but also tremendously bittersweet. It reminded me very early on of Bernice Reubens' books like Five Year Sentence and I found it very hard to get past that. It is a story of small magics & ghosts but not at all in the way you'd expect.
