Topic

Politics

A collection of 4 issues

'26 January - theme: finish an abandoned book

Brick Lane by Monica Ali Another year, another abandoned book. Finally an update from last year: last month I visited Wilby and did indeed go and visit the "pig-ones" as promised last January when I read MaddAdam. I started this book when I was working in Bethnal Green

Audiobook - The Residence, Inside the Private World of the White House - Kate Andersen Brower

I think this was the most boring audiobook I have ever listened to. It took me months to finally finish because I found it so difficult to make myself turn it on. However I am not a DNFer so I persisted. I'm absolutely sure Kate Andersen Brower has

Additional Review E - A book or an extended newspaper column?

Lost At Sea by Joe Kloc Thank you goodreads and Dey Street Books for the ARC of Lost at Sea. I visited Sausolito many years ago on a trip up the West Coast, but other than looking out of the rental car window and seeing some little boats in the

November - theme: Political

It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis A Guardian quote on the cover calls this book "eerily prescient" and it's right. Those are the only two words really needed to describe this book. I found this book extremely hard to get into and if