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36% complete! ks has read 18 of 50 books.
When Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New …
Good version and deviation from the original story. Came to this book after reading reading The Time of the child, which I enjoyed much more, so I may be being hard on it by only giving it four stars.
There is a long series of books featuring Dave Robichaux and Clete Purcel set in and around New Orleans. Kind of hard boiled vets who follow their own code, which is usually honest but not quite within the law. Didn't enjoy this as much as some earlier ones - I think I'm done with this series.
Like the setting of these books in Louisiana
I LOVED this book. Williams is such a beautiful writer who makes me laugh at …
Best book I've read in a long time. Lots of fantastic sentences which are funny, descriptive and very evocative of Ireland in the sixties.
I LOVED this book. Williams is such a beautiful writer who makes me laugh at his wonderful turns of phrase. …
One of the later books in the Enzo series. Set in France - one thread in WW2 and another during Covid in 2020. Premise is about keeping the Mona Lisa safe from the German invading army. This is good, but the Lewis trilogy set a very high bar.
A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing is the debut novel of Eimear McBride published in …
Eimear McBride (born 1976) is an Irish novelist whose debut novel, A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing, won the inaugural Goldsmiths Prize in 2013 and the 2014 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction.
