42) This Is Going To Hurt by Adam Kay This memoir / diary of a junior doctor working in the NHS has been at the top of the bestseller lists for months, so I am late to this - or at least several months behind many thousands of readers. Based (I assume) on a diary… Continue reading Year 3 / Book 42: This Is Going To Hurt
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Year 3 reviews
Year 3 / Book 41: Snap
41) Snap by Belinda Bauer I've been a Belinda Bauer fan for a while, having read Blacklands, Finders Keepers, and Rubbernecker, all of which I found to be a cut above the normal crime fiction - primarily because of truly gripping plots and a darkness combined with believability which other authors can't achieve. So I… Continue reading Year 3 / Book 41: Snap
Year 3 / Book 40: You Were Never Really Here
40) You Were Never Really Here by Jonathan Ames Sometimes life seems to set you up to read a particular book, regardless of whether it had been on your mind to or not. Such is the case with this short hard-boiled crime novel from Jonathan Ames - I'd picked it up from the bookshare outside… Continue reading Year 3 / Book 40: You Were Never Really Here
Year 3 / Book 39: Hope in the Dark
39) Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit If you are not familiar with Rebecca Solnit's work, then I heartily recommend starting to do so - I've read Men Explain Things To Me (the essay/book that gave rise to 'mansplaining') and A Field Guide to Getting Lost is waiting on the bookshelf. This collection of… Continue reading Year 3 / Book 39: Hope in the Dark
Year 3 / Book 38: The People vs Tech
38) The People vs Tech by Jamie Bartlett This book was recommended to me by Amir, and to be honest at the end of it I don't know entirely whether to thank him or throw the book at him (in the literal sense). Not because it's not good and fascinating, but because it is, at… Continue reading Year 3 / Book 38: The People vs Tech
Year 3 / Book 37: Ghachar, Ghochar
37) Ghachar, Ghochar by Vivek Shanbhag I can't for the life of me remember where I heard about this wonderful, short book by the Indian author Vivek Shanbhag, brilliantly translated by Srinath Perur - but it got added to the wishlist a while back, and then spotted in the local Oxfam bookshop. It is one… Continue reading Year 3 / Book 37: Ghachar, Ghochar
Year 3 / Book 36: Transit
36) Transit by Rachel Cusk This was recommended to me by a friend who is also a writer (shout out to Chris), and I spotted it in a charity bookshop nearby, so here we are. Brilliantly, I now realise that I've started with the second book in a trilogy - the first being Outline and… Continue reading Year 3 / Book 36: Transit
Year 3 / Book 35: The Intrusions
35) The Intrusions by Stav Sherez Towards the end of last year, I discovered Stav Sherez's Carrigan and Miller series, and ended up reading the first two in the series, A Dark Redemption and Eleven Days which I thoroughly enjoyed. I've been saving up the third instalment, The Intrusions as a summer holiday treat, and I'm delighted… Continue reading Year 3 / Book 35: The Intrusions
Year 3 / Book 34: Sins As Scarlet
34) Sins As Scarlet by Nicolas Obregon I much enjoyed Obregon's debut Blue Light Yokahama and at the end of that review, I said "keep an eye out for Obregon's next novel". And here we are with Sins As Scarlet, which brings the same lead protagonist-detective, Kosuke Iwata, but is set in Los Angeles rather… Continue reading Year 3 / Book 34: Sins As Scarlet
Year 3 / Book 33: A Quiet Flame
33) A Quiet Flame by Philip Kerr I'm slowly working my way through Philip Kerr's wonderful Bernie Gunther novels, which combine a Chandler-esque wit with the perils and history of 1930s-40s (Nazi) Germany. As I wrote in a previous review, Kerr very sadly died earlier this year, which is all the more reason (as far… Continue reading Year 3 / Book 33: A Quiet Flame
Dog-eared Man: a book a week 