I was so excited to read To Be A Cat by Matt Haig and fortunately, it lived up to all my expectations. To Be A Cat ticks all the boxes if you’re looking for a book that’s funny, action-packed and full of furry animals. The story takes place over a couple of days and features rapid chase scenes, a...
This is described as a modern day retelling of Hamlet, but it's not a direct, scene-for-scene retelling. To me, it seems more accurate to say it was loosely inspired by Hamlet. Either way, this was a pretty good read!Eleven year old Phillip has just lost his father to a tragic car accident. Not l...
My first audiobook for this year. I still prefer reading physical books but I trusted the taste of my friend LS who liked this so much. She is our supplier of audiobooks in our book club. I also decided to listen to this audiobook this week because my favorite morning radio program has become bor...
Lorna Felt is lying in bed next to her husband, slightly hungover but relaxed and thinking about Peter’s frightened face after she’d made her modest move under the table. She stares across the room to the picture on their wal . A tantric diagram of a right foot—a print of a classic eighteenth-cen...
I was in my bedroom. Uncle Alex had told me to stay there until all the mess could be cleared away. I think he also wanted me in my room so I wouldn’t ask any questions. Or see whatever they were going to do to Daniel. I sat there staring out of the window. At the crisscrossing rails carrying tra...
A soul that may be made most visible by a Steinway or a Stradivari, or may be most well expressed by a Bach or a Mozart, but that is always there, in every thing of substance. Of course, I am not a musician. I sell antiques, but the same knowledge applies. You sit all day in a shop, with the old ...
My mind. The weight of it.NOW ME: Shhh. Stop that. You are just a bit trapped inside a moment. The moment will change.THEN ME: Andrea will leave me.NOW ME: No. No, she won’t. She’ll marry you.THEN ME: Ha! As if anyone would tie themselves to a useless freak like me. Would they?NOW ME: Yes. And lo...