Read The Predicament by William Boyd, the second installment of his spy series of books. All a bit ridiculous and far-fetched but an easy and entertaining read. @bookstodon #bookstodon #KeefsReads
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After a long gap where the third book was, erm, lost in translation, I finished the Lars sister bells trilogy with The Night of the Scourge. You should read them all. There's a lot of pages covering 400 years, but the way he brings it full circle is so well done. #keefsreads @bookstodon #bookstodon
The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster. I really enjoyed Baumgartner, which in retrospect was a love letter to his wife before he died in 2023. These books are sort of detective novels. But it's the descent into madness that runs through them. Writing that is both really clever and very readable. @bookstodon #bookstodon #KeefsReads
Just read Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's novel Dream Count. Stories of the relationships between women and their support for one another. I'm afraid men don't come out of this looking good, and that's fair enough. @bookstodon #Bookstodon #KeefsReads
Look What You Made Me Do by John Lancaster. It's one achievement I guess was to make me feel brief sympathy for two characters that deserved none. It's clever I guess. Very inside North London/Oxford middle classes who will love it. You have to suspend belief to believe it. I couldn't. #bookstodon @bookstodon #KeefsReads
Do you like novels about rich screwed-up American families? Are you frustrated that there are not enough rich screwed-up lesbians represented in those stories. Well Like Family by Erin White is for you. I enjoyed it a lot once I got my head around how all the entwined lives fitted together. #bookstodon @bookstodon #KeefsReads
The Night Aways Comes by Willy Vlautin gets the job done in 224 pages. There's a lot out there about fucked-up rich American families (Patchett, Tyler etc) but Vlautin writes well about those who are poor and fucked-up. Quite a lot happens. Perhaps too much. But I'm a fanboy. @bookstodon #bookstodon #KeefsReads
What We Can Know by Ian McEwen. At it's heart a story about love, grief etc among academics. But the twist - and it's all knowingly very clever - is that we first meet the protagonists through the research of future academics who live in a climate ravaged UK. Book clubs in North #Oxford will love this. @bookstodon #Bookstodon #KeefsReads
Read The Souvenir Museum by Elizabeth McCracken. An enjoyable collection of short stories about love, death and, er, childrens' entertainers. She does the words really well. @bookstodon #bookstodon #KeefsReads
