Category Archives: Lionel Shriver
My Worst Best Books
“What’s the worst ‘best’ book you’ve ever read — the one everyone says is so great, but you can’t figure out why?” That is the question from today’s Booking Through Thursday and I could instantly think of one and that … Continue reading
Filed under Emily Bronte, Henry James, J. D. Salinger, Joseph Conrad, Lionel Shriver
New Book Resolutions
First of all Happy New Year! It’s that time where we both look forward and look back and stock take isn’t it? At the beginning of last year when I start the blog properly one of the internal resolutions that … Continue reading
Filed under Book Thoughts, Kate Atkinson, Kate Summerscale, Lionel Shriver, Tess Gerritsen, Will Self
Second Chances
I don’t know if anyone has seen the piece in The Independent today about James Frey, or seen the American book charts and that his new novel ‘Bright Shiny Morning’ is doing really well. So far… so what? Well some … Continue reading
Filed under Book Thoughts, Lionel Shriver, Martin Amis
