pickLoved it, super exciting to discover a series and all of a sudden know what you‘ll be reading for the next year. I just have to figure out how to space them for the podcast so I have other books to talk about 😅
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pickLoved it, super exciting to discover a series and all of a sudden know what you‘ll be reading for the next year. I just have to figure out how to space them for the podcast so I have other books to talk about 😅
Forced to stop snowboarding after only 3 runs today because my back was so tight, but there‘s nothing like a good excuse to lay in a hot bath and read.
Halfway through and loving this. There‘s so many small details about WW1 I didn‘t know. I‘ve never considered myself to be a war fiction reader but my mom and niece are obsessed with the genre so I‘m excited to recommend this to them (assuming they haven‘t already read it!)
pick4.5/5
Well-written historical fiction about how war changes society and social rules. I found the characters diverse and well-developed, and I liked the evolution of the different characters.
While not everyone gets a happy end, it's still a feel-good book, full of humor. It offered me a perfect escape ;)
Very late to this party, but excited to be here. It‘s like a more grown up Her Royal Spyness.
pickA very Booker Prize-ish book - it was a bit tricky. This is a series of stories spanning 1908 to 2025 covering love, both romantic and between parent and child, loss, war and science. What I struggled with was the telling, individual stories moving back and forth in time, the narrative in each story also moving around from paragraph to paragraph. Lovely in parts, but it was harder work than I‘m willing to invest.
Continuing the countdown of my books, from 1st to 25th, THE JACKAL‘S MISTRESS. Today it‘s my 15th, THE SANDCASTLE GIRLS (2012), a love story set in the midst of the Armenian Genocide. As a grandson of two survivors, this is a profoundly important book to me.
