This month’s prompt for Spell the Month in Books — hosted by Reviews from the Stacks —is Books that you found or currently see at the library. I’ve been a member of a public library ever since I was about 10 years old. It sustained me through my childhood when my appetite for reading put a […]
I learned something new as a result of April’s prompt for Spell the Month in Books. Jana, from Reviews From the Stacks who hosts the meme, has picked a theme of Poisson d’Avril which is the French version of April Fool’s Day.I can’t imagine what connects “April Fish” and the kind of jokes that get played […]
The Next Big Thing by Anita Brookner The Next Big Thing is another Anita Brookner novel which provides a penetrating portrait of loneliness. This time her subject is a 73-year-old man who has led a quiet and unremarkable life. Julius Fitz fled Berlin with his parents and his brother, settling in London with […]
Reading Horizons, 12 December, 2018 What are you currently reading? I have multiple books on the go at the moment. I’m meant to be reading A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James because it is one of only two unread titles in my Booker prize project. However, I’m finding it hard going because […]
Nothing much happens in Anita Brookner’s eighth novel The Latecomers. But then Brookner is almost always an author who is concerned with more how people feel than what they do. This time her focus is on two men, Thomas Hartmann and Thomas Fibich, both Jewish refugees on the Kindertransports from Germany who meet at an […]