I'm hoping to finish the last of my NB magazine stack for August's #MonthlyMagazineBlitz @julieclair
I'm off to get a coffee before settling down with these beauties.
https://www.nbmagazine.co.uk/
Issues 100 - 103
pickThis is a dark tale (with a whiff of Hilary Mantel's "Beyond Black"?) of disappearance and suspicious death, set in a crumbling mansion with the principal characters being cantankerous (and possibly dangerous) old Cathal Flood and his carer Maud. It's an engrossing mystery that manages to be slyly funny and also poignant.
Extra marks for Renata, Maud's agoraphobic trans landlady.
Top marks for Aoife McMahon's superb narration.
“Clutter, like emotional chaos, has a way of running in families, passed down like curly hair or blue eyes or musical ability.”
panI would have bailed if this hadn't been for book club. This family is messed up and everything tied up too nicely at the end after all the terrible things they did to each other. And all the comments about weight/characters being fat were gross.
pickBook 4 and last in series. One pretty disturbing aspect to the crime at the center of the mystery. Good series. Liked it better than this author's standalones.
pickMeet the Bird family who live in a picture perfect cosy village. Sensible Megan, shy Bethan and twin boys - Rhys and Rory, Colin, their father and beautiful mother Lorelei. One Easter weekend, a tragic event takes place and the family will never be the same again. The family is torn apart and they go on to lead separate lives. Years later they return to their childhood home to find out once for all what happened to their childhood.
Starting this today. Another book from my TBR list.
pickLove lisa jewell. Not as much her old stuff but still a boom I get through pretty quickly
pickComing clean is about Kim‘s life growing up in a home filled to the brim. Her father is a hoarder.
4/5⭐️
It was moving and a topic I‘m very interested in, I have some hoarding tendencies and purge everything once or twice a year. After 9/11 I collected 100s of newspapers and magazines about it until my mom found them and threw them all out. It was devastating since it was my way of coping with the tragedy.
Final day of covid infection I hope.
