The Hours was the original working title which Virginia Woolf used for Mrs Dalloway and in this beautifully affecting novel, Michael Cunningham uses this as a springboard to explore a day in the lives of three very different women, all of whom are linked in some way to that book. In 1923, Virginia Woolf is…
Read more No 373 The Hours by Michael Cunningham, Book 2 of #20booksofsummer22
Wells Tower’s Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned is one of the best collections of short stories that I have read in a long time. His unsentimental, often brutal yet always brilliant stories lay bare the lives of ordinary people, all trying to do the right thing is a world of alienation and hopelessness. Written with a…
Read more No 374 Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Tower: Book 1 of #20booksofsummer22
Well, that’s it for another year – 20 Books of Summer ends tomorrow and what a blast it’s been. Although I didn’t finish my challenge this year I am still counting it as a win. I read 17 of my original 20 choices and swapped two books for others. The Anita Brookner I had chosen,…
Read more Goodbye to 20 Books of Summer and hello to autumn reading plans!
Brian Moore’s 100th birthday was this week and I’m continuing my centenary read-along with his 1981 novel The Temptation of Eileen Hughes. The Temptation of Eileen Hughes is another of Moore’s lean character studies, with a tight focus on a few characters and a moment of crisis which upends several lives. It lacks some of…
Read more No 407 The Temptation of Eileen Hughes by Brian Moore Book 19 of #20booksofsummer
I was reminded that Vendela Vida’s debut novel And Now You Can Go was languishing in the 746 when Susan at A Life in Books recently reviewed Vida’s new novel We Run the Tides, which I thought sounded really interesting. And Now You Can Go explores the emotional fall-out following a traumatic experience, but despite…
Read more No 408 And Now You Can Go by Vendela Vida Book 18 of #20booksofsummer21
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