Tag: Kate Atkinson
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Happy, Happy New Year
Best wishes for the new year! I was going to write a post yesterday on my best books of 2013, but the company who hosts my blog had a server outage and I couldn’t access my blog for the majority of the day and then…I became obsessed with a knitting project. So, in lieu of…
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My Top Five Books of the Year Through June (2013)
I’ve read lots of pleasant books this year, books that were well-written, compelling stories with believable characters. But I haven’t read many books that changed my world like I did last year. Nothing that is on the same level as Excellent Women, Death Comes for the Archbishop or The Song of Achilles. Therefore, I found…
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Mini Thoughts on Major Books
The following two books have already received lots of attention, publicity and accolades (or criticism) so I am just going to give my very brief thoughts on each title. Life After Life by Kate Atkinson – Ursula Todd is born in the harsh winter of 1910 and thereafter experiences re-birth and a circular life cycle…
A Certain Fondness 