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libbysbookshelf's Reviews (745)
LANNY by MAX PORTER
I love the school holidays because it means I can read a book in one sitting and that is my absolute favourite thing to do.
What a special little book, ay? I love how this writer plays with form and structure. I also love how magical this book is but Porter is still able to capture the mundanity of English village life.
This book is a proper little treat. Buy it and read it now!
I love the school holidays because it means I can read a book in one sitting and that is my absolute favourite thing to do.
What a special little book, ay? I love how this writer plays with form and structure. I also love how magical this book is but Porter is still able to capture the mundanity of English village life.
This book is a proper little treat. Buy it and read it now!
REBECCA by DAPHNE DU MAURIER
Wow (obviously). I know it’s no surprise that this is a great book; people have been saying so since the 1930s, but I didn’t expect to love it so much. I just read it to be dutiful and make sure I was reading the classics and not just contemporary literary, but my, oh my, did I get a shock!
The best word I can use to describe this book is: compelling. There wasn’t a moment when I didn’t want to read on. I only put this book down when I absolutely had to.
If you’ve been wondering whether to read this or if it’s been lurking on your TBR for years, then I recommend you pick it up ASAP and you won’t be sorry.
Any other fans out there?
Wow (obviously). I know it’s no surprise that this is a great book; people have been saying so since the 1930s, but I didn’t expect to love it so much. I just read it to be dutiful and make sure I was reading the classics and not just contemporary literary, but my, oh my, did I get a shock!
The best word I can use to describe this book is: compelling. There wasn’t a moment when I didn’t want to read on. I only put this book down when I absolutely had to.
If you’ve been wondering whether to read this or if it’s been lurking on your TBR for years, then I recommend you pick it up ASAP and you won’t be sorry.
Any other fans out there?
THE KITE RUNNER by KHALED HOSSEINI
Well reading this book has indeed been a journey. I think it was one of the first Kindle books I ever purchased years ago. I started reading it and couldn’t get into it and then I read the deeply upsetting scene and couldn’t really bring myself to carry on. Enter worldwide pandemic that forces us all indoors with nothing to do but clear our backlog of Kindle books. I finished the remaining 80% of this book over the past 4 days and I have loved it. What a story. What a book. There were so many ups and downs, but mostly downs.
If you don’t know, it’s a story about Afghanistan and what it means to be Afghan. It’s also a story about guilt and loss and family. Beautiful
Well reading this book has indeed been a journey. I think it was one of the first Kindle books I ever purchased years ago. I started reading it and couldn’t get into it and then I read the deeply upsetting scene and couldn’t really bring myself to carry on. Enter worldwide pandemic that forces us all indoors with nothing to do but clear our backlog of Kindle books. I finished the remaining 80% of this book over the past 4 days and I have loved it. What a story. What a book. There were so many ups and downs, but mostly downs.
If you don’t know, it’s a story about Afghanistan and what it means to be Afghan. It’s also a story about guilt and loss and family. Beautiful
If you want to know the brutal truth of poverty and alcoholism in late twentieth century Scotland, then look no further than this book.
The suffering of alcoholic mother, Agnes, and her three children, including Shuggie himself, was both rough and tough. There were real hopeless moments throughout this novel, but the earnest nature of Shuggie made this bearable, no, beautiful.
Agnes is an alcoholic and she makes mistakes time and again, but her sense of pride and dignity make her a flawed but loveable character. And if you were ever unsure if alcoholism was a disease, then you need look no further than this book.
