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Book Review: The Discomfort of Evening
The Discomfort of Evening by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld. My rating: 4 of 5 stars. The Discomfort of Evening is narrated by Jas, a ten year-old girl who lives on a dairy farm with her parents and siblings in a northern village in the Netherlands. Her brother dies after falling through ice while skating, and the…
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Book Review: Normal People
Normal People by Sally Rooney. My rating: 5 of 5 stars. Normal People is the story of Marianne and Connell who grow up in a small town in the west of Ireland. The novel covers their relationship over four years as they finish school and go on to study at Trinity College in Dublin. Reading…
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Book Review: Friend Request
Friend Request by Laura Marshall. My rating: 5 of 5 stars. Friend Request is the story of a woman who receives a Facebook friend request from a girl she used to know at school. A girl who died twenty-five years ago. As soon as I heard about this book, I knew I had to read…
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Book Review: The Brotherhood
The Brotherhood by Jerry B. Jenkins. My rating: 4 of 5 stars. The Brotherhood is the story of Boone Drake, an ambitious rookie cop who wants to take on the Chicago underworld, facing some tough personal challenges along the way. The first few lines of this novel grabbed me straight away. I knew it wasn’t…
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Book Review: The Cement Garden
The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan. My rating: 5 of 5 stars. The Cement Garden is the dark story of four siblings who live together in a large house overlooked by tower blocks. First they have to deal with the death of their father, then their mother; then they do what they have to do…
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Book Review: My Legendary Girlfriend
My Legendary Girlfriend by Mike Gayle. My rating: 4 of 5 stars. My Legendary Girlfriend is the story of Will, a hopeless romantic who is still trying to get over being dumped by the love of his life three years before. The book is set over the course of a single weekend, and is a…
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Book Review: On Writing
On Writing: A Memoir by Stephen King. My rating: 5 of 5 stars. On Writing is exactly what it says in the sub-title: a memoir. But it’s more than that. While the first third of the book recounts key events in King’s life that perhaps make him the writer he is, the second two thirds…
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Book Review – Who Moved My BlackBerry?
Who Moved My Blackberry? by Lucy Kellaway. My rating: 4 of 5 stars. Who Moved My BlackBerry is the hilarious story of Martin Lukes and his struggle to reach the top of the corporate ladder and become “22.5 percent better than his bestest”. The book is written entirely as a series of emails from Martin…
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