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Exquisite Corpse
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To serial slayer Andrew Compton, murder is an art, the most intimate art. After feigning his own...
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The Life and Rhymes of Benjamin Zephaniah: The Autobiography
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Benjamin Zephaniah, who has travelled the world for his art and his humanitarianism, now tells the...
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First Strike (I-Team #5.9)
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Just a weekend… Laura Nilsson knows what she wants: a successful career as a broadcast...
No Man’s Land (John Puller #4)
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Two men. Thirty years. John Puller’s mother, Jackie, vanished thirty years ago from Fort...
For Whom the Bread Rolls (A Pancake House Mystery Book 2)
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From the USA Today bestselling author of The Crêpes of Wrath comes another decadent cozy mystery....
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The Invisible Heiress
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The Monster of Farewell (Blacklighters #1)
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Mercury Havenworth My mother always told me I had nothing. No place in civilized society. No moral...
ClareR (5874 KP) rated Against the Loveless World in Books
Aug 15, 2021
When she returns to Palestine to her husband’s family in order to divorce him, she meets his brother and falls in love. However, this is the start of more problems for her, as she becomes radicalised.
It did seem hard to believe that she had quite so many problems and terrible things happen to her, but I’ve since read that Nahr’s character is an amalgamation of several real-life stories. So, in a way, it reassured me that one person couldn’t experience ALL of these things, whilst at the same time I felt so sad that anyone could experience ANY of these things.
I couldn’t put this book down, though. It’s a fascinating, yet horrifying novel, and not something that I’ve read about in fiction before - and I’m so glad that I have.
ClareR (5874 KP) rated End of Story in Books
Apr 14, 2023
It’s 2035, fiction has been banned for the last five years, and even owning a work of fiction is a criminal act. Fern Dostoy had won a prestigious book award before the laws came in to force, and now she isn’t allowed to write. She has random home checks by frightening men in suits, is threatened by imprisonment - or worse.
I found this a very disturbing read - I mean, I would be among the first to be booked in to a stay at His Majesty’s Pleasure (aka, prison). And is this so very far from the truth right now?
Some aspects of the pandemic are referred to, especially the isolation that so many people struggled through.
This is a pretty bleak read, but I just loved it. It’s touching, too, and gave me a lot to think about. This isn’t a book to race through (or it at least needs a second read), because it throws up so many questions with regards to fiction, the arts and society in general.
As Fern says: “if you tell a story we’ll enough, it’s true”. I honestly hope not in this case!
Highly recommended - and many thanks to The Pigeonhole and Louise for reading along with us.