audiobooks

A few book reviews
After Dark - Haruki Murakami (Kindle) A short book that’s much more about mood than narrative. It’s like Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks brought to life. Mari goes from cafe to cafe, visits a Japanese Love Hotel, and meets various characters, during...
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A girl is a half formed thing
I remember going through a stage of reading book after book and wondering why every single novelist writes in the exact same style. Now and then you might find someone with a slight lilt to their style (Kevin Barry springs...
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Glow – Audiobook
Glow is a mysterious new drug popping up on the rave scene in London. Raf has a rare disorder called non-24-hour-sleep-wake, and guards the transmitter of pirate radio station. Raf's friend has vanished. Urban Foxes are acting strange. And corporate...
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Books of the year 2014
Confirmed: When I stick to themes that I already know like I'm usually happy: New, fresh, contemporary, darkly comic, dysfunctional, character-based. Reconfirmed: When I try books everyone raves about, which I've a gut feeling aren't for me I'm nearly always disappointed:...
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The Circle (Audiobook)
The Circle is Google, Facebook, Apple and Twitter rolled into 1 and turned up to 11. It's a parody of social media and it's a parody of society in general. Or at least the portion of society that is addicted to...
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Under The Skin
The Book I’ve been meaning to write this review for a while but the book is a Kindle Daily Deal today. So get it while it's cheap. The Movie I think sometimes, that people look in the wrong places for...
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The Bone Clocks (Audiobook)
Some books really seem to narrow the gap between short stories, novellas, and novels. Take George Saunders’ Tenth of December, the off-kilter dystopian world these short stories are set in give it a combined narrative that makes it seem very...
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My month of Madness (Audiobook)
This audiobook was going cheap in an Audible sale. So I just nabbed it without looking into it much and got off to a bad start because I’d assumed it was about mental illness, and the whole style was so...
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We are all completely beside ourselves (Audiobook)
I really enjoyed this. In fact I always seem to enjoy books that feature quirky families. And it doesn't get much quirkier than a girl who grows up with a chimpanzee for a sister. Karen Joy Fowler is a very...
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Silas Marner – Audiobook & Kindle
I don't have a good track record with ye old classics. I've found a lot of them quite dated, regardless of how ahead of their time some of them once we're.  And others are just a bit too... stiff &...
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