brilliant but i think its best yo read it just for language and phrasing first - focussing on those and plot made it tricky (but beautiful) to follow #stlucia i totally see why he was awarded a Nobel!

i love this book so much.

lovely and philosophical

lovesnufkin!

great read!

awesome - the most adult i think of the series

The Eskimos ... know all about the depression of the long night. They called it 'perlerorneq' which means 'to feel the weight of life'.

a piece of pure brilliance - writing grief is so hard but max porter does it so well (or is it Crow)
#poetry #tedhughes #faberbooks

ilove her #travelwriting and reading about #antarctica makes my heart sing

a dark love letter to Iceland! brilliant novelisation of the life and death of the last execution there. thoroughly Laxness!

bloody brilliant - i'll read it akoud to a future child in the womb

healing words. i absolutely adore this book - a set of writings collected after Roger's death it is stunning

"the source of a river, a tear duct of the earth"

great end to the trilogy but i would have liked for about Tiro's last forty years - but as he would say - it's not his story!

They came to a place where their ways parted. they stopped there and stood as if held together by something outside themselves. perhaps it was the magic of the moon that held them rooted to the spot.

brilliant book looking at Gikuyu ttibal politics - having just read a book on #fgm it's i teredting to read a novel that recognises its cultural weight (but i think in a equitable manner). #kenya #readingafrica #gikuyu

brilliant! helen has a great way with words and its so great to see women focussed on #poetry #mountaineering

brilliant read - fast paced and so full of exciyingky told stories! having been skeptical - woukd thoroughly recommend

absolutely brilliant - really amazing how he brings Roman politics to life #rome #historicalfiction #robertharris #imperium #cicero

"make your speech shorter"

Terentia is so badass - she hold the purse strings and PUSHES Cicero! so fierce

i learnt so much about twentieth century #China #communism and the lives of women - super infomative but i found the prose a bit difficult

friday night #bookshopping superexcited to pick up #griefisthethingwithfeathers & #theoutrun & #theriverbetween allbooks i'm looking forward to reading! excellent #LeedsWaterstones haul