Atonement is, as the title suggests, a book about redemption and coming to terms with the past and atoning for past transgressions but more than that, Melissa Ingoldsby’s book is about love and its power to restore and heal, through affection and reassurance and consistency. It starts excitingly with two men, Edward and John, onContinue reading “Atonement by Melissa Ingoldsby”
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The Axeman’s Jazz by Ray Celestin
New Orleans: a city of mob and racial tension and now, there’s a serial killer on the loose in this well-written thriller
Beautiful World, Where Are You? by Sally Rooney
This book was a pleasant surprise, a study of characters and relationships with a literary bent
The Serial Killer’s Wife by Alice Hunter
An original book with a surprising ending which failed to set this reader alight
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
A book about people and the injustices that are served and the battle to conquer them
Miss Benson’s Beetle by Rachel Joyce
A tale of friendship, reconciliation with the past, and adventure, with two unlikely women searching for a beetle on the other side of the world
Suffragettes died for me to have this right
Yes. Categorically, yes. Women put themselves under the stamping hooves of horses for me to have that right; women went on hunger strike in order for me to have that right. That’s not something that I take lightly. Do you? Because there are those that would snatch that right away from me given half theContinue reading “Suffragettes died for me to have this right”
Forever moving forwards…
What gives you direction in life? I’m not sure I have direction. I’m more of a meanderer. What I will say is I rarely look back. Memories? Of course, it’s good to reflect but dwelling in the past is, in my opinion, not a good thing. It’s gone, never to be revisited. Time to lookContinue reading “Forever moving forwards…”
I do love an adage…
Do you have a quote you live your life by or think of often? It sounds trite but “Everything always works out for the best” is mine because even when life has been dark, I’ve come out of it with something more – more knowledge, more awareness or even just simply to never put myselfContinue reading “I do love an adage…”
What News on the Rialto? by Anthony Wildman
Anyone for Venice at the time of Shakespeare with Shakespeare himself as your eyes there? Well, it worked for me!
Scuffed Granny 