The Thursday Murder Club
I have to admit I mostly noticed this book because I liked the cover so much. The jaunty script, retro styling and the simplistic yet warm feeling of it totally drew me in. It helps that the book got decent reviews as well, but yeah it was partially the cover, haha. Anyway, I’ve been wanting …
Cloud Cuckoo Land
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr is a book for people who love books and storytelling. It jumps back and forth chronologically, following a few sets of characters in different time periods to tell a cohesive story that links all of them together. Anna is an orphan living in Constantinople in the 1400’s. Omeir is …
The Lincoln Highway
The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles is a book I’ve really been looking forward to ever since it was announced. Like many people, I really enjoyed his previous novel A Gentleman in Moscow, and I’ve been eager to revisit his writing. The Lincoln Highway is an adventure story through and through. It tells the story …
Rock Paper Scissors
Rock Paper Scissors by Alice Feeney passed me by when it was released a month ago, but I’ve heard good things about it. Then, when I heard that Richard Armitage was narrating parts of the audiobook, it jumped straight to the top of my to-read (or to-listen, I suppose) list. (You might know him as …
Bewilderment
Bewilderment by Richard Powers was recently released two weeks ago. With Powers’s last novel winning the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, it was sure to be big release. Sure enough, Bewilderment was selected for Oprah’s Book Club and has been shortlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize already. The story in Bewilderment deals with a father, …