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#august2023

I‘m posting one book per day from my ever-increasing TBR. No description. No explanation. Just books to read. Join the fun if you want.

Day 12.

#fromthetbrstacks

Haunting. Quietly sad and satisfying. It just charts grief and emotion in a really clever and readable way. Nothing happens really - it‘s not a whodunnit. It stays in my shelf but I don‘t know if I could read it again.

The blurb makes you think it‘s going to be a mystery - who took Kate? Do they get her back? But it‘s really about an unsolvable mystery - time. Is it a line or a spiral? Do we only move forward, or also backwards, sideways, other? What is “reality“ or “sanity”? And yet it‘s a very readable story. Four stars. #authoramonth2020 @Soubhiville

Five hour council meeting last night that ended at midnight, three Zoom meetings and a swearing in today, and I laid down my tracks for Sunday. Time for a kitty and a few chapters. #authoramonth2020

Book shows just how quickly life can change in an instant. Stephen Lewis, an author of children‘s books, gets distracted while food shopping and his 3 year-old daughter has been kidnapped. His life is changed forever. His bereavement affects his relationship with his wife and his psyche. It was a very moving book with a beautiful ending! A book not to be missed! An extraordinary achievement by Ian McEwan!

#AChildInTime #IanMcEwan #authoramonth

Heartbreaking, beautiful stuff. Fat wet tears in my eyes towards the end. I saw the movie recently and they did a pretty decent job too.

Miniature #bookhaul from the thrift store today. Has anyone read either of these?

Anybody else watch The Child in Time on PBS tonight? I thought it was very good, but I haven't read the Ian McEwan book. If you have, I'd love to know what you thought.

Stephen takes his 3-year-old to the market, turns around and she's gone. You'd think this was about a kidnapping or parents dealing with the loss but then there's a guy who reverts to his childhood and a book on raising kids published by the government. Puzzling. I've read 3 books now by McEwan (Atonement, Sweet Tooth) and they all have strange endings that never seem quite right.

This book won the Whitbread Novel Award/ Costa Book Award #thirty years ago.
#novemberbythenumbers

Those of you who know me also know why I'm going to read this book right now. #PossiblyBenedictCumberbatch

Another lit adaptation on the watchlist!

Had this on the shelf for years. Finally...