The intertwined stories of Lena and Anton. Set in Austria in the first few decades of the 20th Century. Slow and thoughtful, it left me feeling quite sad at the end.
Author page: Snow Country – Sebastian Faulks
The intertwined stories of Lena and Anton. Set in Austria in the first few decades of the 20th Century. Slow and thoughtful, it left me feeling quite sad at the end.
Author page: Snow Country – Sebastian Faulks
Another novella set in the magical Rivers of London universe, this time over the pond in the land of the Virginia Gentlemen’s Company, where Agent Kimberley Reynolds is called upon to investigate Unusual Circumstances in a remote lakeside community in Wisconsin.
There she finds unusually adverse weather conditions, no trace of the ex-FBI agent who’d called in the UC, a journal with a mention of the mysterious disappearance of an 1843 VGC expedition and terrifyingly cold vestigia …..
And yes, this did keep me reading until just gone midnight. And it’s quite a scary read!
Publisher page: Winter’s Gifts – Ben Aaronovitch
Oh how I love Ben Aaronovitch’s Rivers of London books.
For this little novella we leave Peter Grant in the wilds of Herefordshire (!) and hang out with his niece Abigail. It’s the summer of 2013, and young north London teens are going missing for a day or night or two from the vicinity of Hampstead Heath…..
The presence of talking foxes always reminds me of the blink foxes of Alex Verus’ magical London. I would love Peter and Alex to meet, and I wonder what would happen if their worlds were to overlap….
And in looking up some of the teen vocab, I did find myself deep in the pages of MetaFilter FanFare Peter Grant Club…. brilliant!
Author page: What Abigail Did That Summer – Ben Aaronovitch
Abandoned at chapter 12.
One unhappy, nasty person, a Plain Jane Superbrain / Cinderella and a frazzled, fed up mum. Not interested enough in any of them to invest the time to get to the sushi.
Author page: Sushi for Beginners – Marian Keyes
Pride and Prejudice transplanted and updated to 21st Century Cincinnati.
Elizabeth become Liz, a writer on a glossy magazine and living in New York. Darcy is a heart surgeon. Mr and Mrs Bennet are both awful. Lydia and Kitty gain redemptive qualities. Mary remains the oddball, Jane the yogic angel, and Chip Bingley brings in the reality TV show and plotline that gives the novel its name.
Sparky dialogue, very short chapters, easy reading.
Author page: Eligible – Curtis Sittenfeld