Book 3/40 of 2025 ✨
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Not just my favourite read of November, but the best book of the year for me. I adored it.
#12BooksOf2024
@Andrew65
Not just my favourite read of November, but the best book of the year for me. I adored it.
#12BooksOf2024
@Andrew65
pickI have read this book in the last 24 hours and feel a bit battered and broken.
It‘s amazing, a work of art, but brutal and honest.
I learned a lot and googled a lot!
Brilliant story telling.
Having a very peaceful 1st day of the year with my first #AuldLangSpine book of the year.
so-soJoining @TheAromaofBooks #Readouttheold readathon to finish all the books before the new year arrives. Read this one for a bookclub. I had a hard time getting into it and when I got in, it became very heavy.
I appear to have been on some kind of mission this month (called trying to catch up on my Goodreads challenge!), 12 books in a month must surely be a record for me.
Best by far was There Are Rivers in the Sky, a truly beautiful novel.
Worst by a huge margin was Starting Over (men who blame their own violence on others should never be considered as love interest material, in books or in real life).
#NovemberWrapUp
bailedI love Elif Shafak as a person who speaks about pressing issues & as an author. I‘ve enjoyed the diverse characters & warmth of her previous books. I didn‘t get on with this one - it felt too slow & the fable-like tone & lack of plot tension made it hard to connect with the characters or care what happened. It‘s also a little overwritten or descriptive. I‘ve heard people raving about it, but I didn‘t have the patience to keep going.
You know I'm hard-up for light reading when I dig out the AC. I never noticed this racist aside before 😂
