The good neighbourhood (I'm sorry, I will spell the title the way the book spells it but otherwise I'm going to spell it right!) of this novel is Oak Knolls, a quiet, middle class suburban area of North Carolina where the neighbours know each other and many have lived side by side for years. Valerie… Continue reading (Audio) Book Review: A Good Neighborhood by Therese Anne Fowler
Tag: St. Martin’s Press
What I Read – November 2018
After my lacklustre showing for October, I kicked my reading up a notch for November READ: A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth (Little, Brown & Company, 1993) (Read my full review here.) Fat, ligament, muscle, blood, hair, affection, pity, despair, anxiety, illness: all were no more. She had dispersed. She was the garden at Prem… Continue reading What I Read – November 2018
Book Review: The Forgetting Tree by Tatjana Soli
This book was so frustrating. The writing is beautiful; evocative descriptions of place full of smell and texture, the people seem visible and nuanced in their appearance on the page, and there is so much history simmering beneath the page. But the actions of the characters are so frustrating I found myself racing through the… Continue reading Book Review: The Forgetting Tree by Tatjana Soli
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