Rating: 8/10 ‘When I started working on this case, ladies and gentlemen, I didn’t see myself as a racist. Now I realize I am. Not because I hate people of different races but because – intentionally or unintentionally – I’ve gotten a boost from the color of my skin, just like Ruth Jefferson suffered a setback … Continue reading The ThursddayAddams Book Club: Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
Rating: 6/10 "What you don’t know is that in the longest, blackest night, there is always a light. That the wind is myriad souls singing, passing from one world to the next, as they begin their journey to the stars." If I had to sum up this novel in a sentence, it would be one … Continue reading The ThursddayAddams Book Club: The Bones of You by Debbie Howells
Rating: 6/10 "W. H. Hudson said, ‘Bear in mind … that … animals are only unhappy when made so by man.’" Rosamund Young's The Secret Life of Cows was a 99p bargain I secured from the Kindle Store, and a book I read to end yet another sleepless night. Whilst it doesn't possess the literary prowess I'd … Continue reading The ThursddayAddams Book Club: The Secret Life of Cows by Rosamund Young
Rating: 7/10 "Writing does not exist unless there is someone to read it, and each reader will take something different from a novel, from a chapter, from a line. " As I sit here writing this on Wednesday 27th December at 20:06, it's been approximately 14 hours since I've finished reading Claire Fuller's Swimming Lessons, which, in … Continue reading The ThursddayAddams Book Club: Swimming Lessons by Claire Fuller
Rating: 5/10 "Wind knocked the window; waves slammed the shore. Thick clouds marched overhead, a solid front moving inland. They hadn’t released the rain yet, but precipitation hovered thickly in the air. I still had time." Kerry Lonsdale's All The Breaking Waves is, as described on the blurb: 'A riveting exploration of love, secrets, and motherhood, All … Continue reading The ThursddayAddams Book Club: All The Breaking Waves by Kerry Lonsdale
"Grim Reaper perches on every surgeon’s shoulder and death is always definitive. There are no second chances." Rating: 10/10 This book well and truly, inexplicably, blew my mind away. After stumbling across Professor Westaby's memoir on Amazon Kindle, I was instantly intrigued. I've spent my fair time in hospitals, and I've always found surgeons and … Continue reading The ThursddayAddams Book Club: Fragile Lives by Professor Stephen Westaby
Michelle Paver's Thin Air has been a book that I've read in just three sittings, which speaks volumes for how fantastic it is as a novel. Following the narrative of five English men ascending Mount Kangchenjunga in Darjeeling in 1935, this ghost story will have you questioning the reliability of all involved as the climb quickly, yet … Continue reading Michelle Paver’s ‘Thin Air’: A Book Review
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