Was in a bit of a slump this month…
Tag: Fiction
Convenience Store Woman – Sayaka Murata
There really is somewhere for everyone.
#3 |First Lines Friday
‘All these sounds of her failure and regret would be left behind, and in their place there would be silence.’
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle – Stuart Turton
A man wakes in the woods, screaming ‘Anna’ with no idea who he – or she – is.
2018 Reading Wrap-up
Significantly overdue but here’s my 2018 in books
50 Bookish Things for Post #100
Celebrating post #100!
#2 |First Lines Friday
‘I am in here.’
‘The Silent Companions’ – Laura Purcell
Setting a gothic novel around people-shaped flat, wooden paintings is going to work very well or not at all.
‘Severance’ – Ling Ma
Give me a dystopian survival journey OR a workplace centred coming of age tale. Not both.
‘The Haunting of Hill House’ – Shirley Jackson
Hill House is no place for the living
‘We Have Always Lived in the Castle’ – Shirley Jackson
London, November 2018 Overview Living in the Blackwood family home with her older sister Constance and her Uncle Julian, Katherine … More
‘The Robber Bride’ – Margaret Atwood
Three friends attend the funeral of a shared enemy and aren’t prepared for her surprise return.
