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Book Review: The Thursday Murder Club
The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman. My rating: 5 of 5 stars. Richard Osman’s The Thursday Murder Club is one of the most talked about debuts in crime fiction in recent years. It’s a record-breaking number one platinum bestseller, shifting over one million copies in the same year as its release, and notably the…
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Book Review: Dandelion Wine
Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury. My rating: 2 of 5 stars. Dandelion Wine is a collection of short stories set in the fictional Green Town, Illinois over the summer of 1928. The setting is said to based on Bradbury’s own childhood home of Waukegan, Illinois. I have a collection of short stories by Bradbury, and…
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Book Review: Generation X
Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture by Douglas Coupland. My rating: 4 of 5 stars. Generation X is a novel set in the 1990s, and is a story centred around three friends, Andy Palmer, Dagmar (Dag) Bellinghausen and Claire Baxter. Three additional characters make an appearance as the story progresses, including Tobias, Elvissa, and…
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Book Review: James Herriot’s Yorkshire Stories
James Herriot’s Yorkshire Stories by James Herriot. My rating: 5 of 5 stars. I’m a big fan of the new All Creatures Great and Small series, and was pleased when I received this little collection of James Herriot’s short stories as a gift earlier this year. Herriot’s writing style is deceptively simple, and his love…
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Book Review: Where the Crawdads Sing
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens. My rating: 5 of 5 stars. Delia Owens is an inspiration to writers who have been putting down words for years without seeing them published. Although she was already a successful author of non-fiction books about her life as a wildlife scientist, Owens did not publish a novel…
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VP
VP is a short story I wrote in January 2020. It was first published in August 2022 by CafeLitMagazine. The opening paragraphs are below, and you can visit the CafeLitMagazine website to read the full story. *** When you tell someone you’re a Vice President, they usually ask one of two things. ‘What’s that?’ or…
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Book Review: The Graduate
The Graduate by Charles Webb. My rating: 5 of 5 stars. The Graduate is set in the 1960s, and introduces us to Benjamin Braddock just after he has returned home to his parents’ house in California following his graduation from a small college in the east of the United States. His parents are throwing a…
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Top Three Books of 2021
During 2021, my reading rate has been nowhere near as impressive as it was in 2020. I’m not sure why that is. However, I’ve read a good mix of non-fiction, novels, and short stories, and have continued keeping track of everything through Goodreads, which means I can carry on my now yearly tradition of picking…
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