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Review: Scotland’s Stories of Home
Scotland’s Stories of Home by Alan Warner
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Some great short stories. I liked the pot of soup reminding of home, the horrid rainy day out leading to meeting her future husband and Oor Street which I enjoyed reading aloud to sound like a Scot! I never spoke Scottish before. With the help of phonetic stories, I sounded Scottish! Hilarious! It’s good to try out with friends.
Review: Elizabeth Is Missing
Elizabeth Is Missing by Emma Healey
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
I really liked the book at the beginning when Maud was getting confused and driving the police, her friend’s son and her daughter mad with her “Where do you plant marrows?” and “Elizabeth is missing” as a way of trying to figure out and communicate how her sister died after the war. Towards the middle of the book I was anticipating what kind of mishap Maud’s disintegrating mind would create. By the end of the book, it was getting ‘sameish’, predictable and I was getting impatient to find out how Sukey died and who killed her, but the mystery remains open-ended.
It’s a great perspective of a character with Dementia and I do empathise with those who have this common condition. Ordinary things are so hard for them and the book expresses that well. The book displays ‘showing’…
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Review: First Knight
First Knight by Elizabeth Chadwick
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
A story about the King Arthur-Guinevere-Lancelot love triangle. I can’t remember whether Arthur died in the movie. Both book and movie were good. 🙂
Review: Troll Mountain: The Complete Novel
Troll Mountain: The Complete Novel by Matthew Reilly
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
A nice middle grade fable with Trolls, a bad human and a quest for a young hero in it. A fun read.
Review: Changeling
Changeling by Philippa Gregory
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Really enjoyed this first book of the YA series The Order of Darkness set in Renaissance Italy. The cast of characters are individually distinctive and interesting, especially the two support characters Frieze (the annoyingly talkative and interfering man-servant)and the no-nonsense action girl Moor, Ishraq.
Review: Dreaming the Eagle
Dreaming the Eagle by Manda Scott
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
I liked that the tribes were meritocratic and not based on gender. Tribal leadership went from mother to daughter. The relationships between Breaca and her brother and two lovers is interesting. The Dark ages that followed were truly dark and limited!
The book was a bit boring and repetitive in places with all the wars. The book was too long. But I am going to persevere with the series.
Review: The Goldfinch
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
My rating: 1 of 5 stars
Another book like Secret History, where the protagonist is weak, self-pitying, traumatised and chooses friends who get him into affluent society, drugs, alcohol and chronic smoking. Also, like the Secret History the protagonist chooses the path of a criminal. The locations are different and there is a slight tweak in the storyline, but essentially if you read this book without knowing the author and after reading Secret History, you’d recognise the writing style, vocabulary and plot.
Again like Secret History, the book starts very well with the reader routing for the protagonist and then as the protagonist slides into despair and makes bad decisions, the reader becomes detached and wishes the book were over.
My favourite characters in this book are Popchyk the dog, Hobbie the naïve one and the protagonist’s mother. The others are hard to empathise with.
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Review: To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
A great book from the perspective of an adult looking back through her five year old self at her family relationships, the small-minded town she lived in and a court case about a black man accused of raping a white woman in 1930s America in the deep South. Scout and her brother Jem are brought up by their father Atticus Finch, a lawyer. He teaches Scout to read and write by using his law books and newspapers and she finds herself far too advanced when she starts school which creates challenges for her with her teacher! Scout is a tomboy who loves to use her fists to deal with disagreements and her ever patient father tries to encourage her to be less hot-headed and more aware of others. She turns up in the middle of a mob…
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Review: Lords of the White Castle
Lords of the White Castle by Elizabeth Chadwick
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
This is the sequel to ‘Shadows and Strongholds’ and deals with Fulke Fitzwarin who was an outlaw in the time of King John and the Magna Carta. A very enjoyable action packed read.
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