Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown My rating: 4 of 5 stars I was thinking a lot about how to review this and where to even begin with this awful, profoundly upsetting, straightforwardly told thing and then I thought perhaps it is there. I knewContinue reading “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee – an Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown”
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Bring Up The Bodies by Hilary Mantel
Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel My rating: 5 of 5 stars So before we get into this, the facts: this is a barnstormer of a book and I enjoyed every inch of it. I came to it after reading Wolf Hall, which I had found a little difficult, and, as a consequence, feltContinue reading “Bring Up The Bodies by Hilary Mantel”
A year in books
Looking back through the year is always interesting to me as patterns begin to make themselves known. I’m conscious, for example, that the end of the year has been a strange one in terms of books. I read a lot of things that did not quite agree with me and that I either put asideContinue reading “A year in books”
A Drop Of Golden Sun by Kate Saunders
A Drop of Golden Sun by Kate Saunders My rating: 5 of 5 stars There’s a point in one of my books where one character asks another if they’ve read any Kate Saunders and that’s because of two things: Beswitched, and also that everything in story is connected. At least, it is to me. IContinue reading “A Drop Of Golden Sun by Kate Saunders”
Daisy May Johnson 