I just realized I finished this review without saying anything about the book, so I’m back with a short summary. This book groups together 21 essays from minority ethnic people in Britain today, talking about how their ethnicity impacts their every day life. Some of them are famous – actors, comedians, journalists, bloggers -, none of them were known to me. The essays are raw and real, and paint an incredible picture I believe everyone needs to see. And they caused me to reflect deeply […]
Good book, if somewhat unbelievable at times
So my new book club picked this book out of a hat, and I’m really happy about it right now. This is the third crime thriller I have read this year, and while I didn’t find this one quite as good as Career of Evil, it is definitely bringing up the average score of the genre. So this book is about a series of almost accidental deaths, which newly reinstated DI Robyn Carter starts to connect while working on a missing persons case she picked up while still […]
I am flabbergasted at the level of hypocrisy — Should I read book 2?
I apologise in advance, because this review is going to be so full of spoilers. I am so shocked with this I can’t even come up with words to explain this. The hypocrisy of it all is just threatening to suffocate me. And I need some help to decide whether I should go on. Just a little context: a bit over 10 years ago, my mother lent me this book to read, but as I am not a big fan of translations if I can […]
Testing my hypothesis – or why I think Anna Kendrick rocks now
So 3 days ago I finished listening to Amy Pohler’s Yes Please, which I found to be okay, and I postulated that the reason I was so underwhelmed by it was because I had overdosed in memoirs and should steer clear of them for a while. So I decided to test that theory, by re-reading Anna Kendrick’s Scrappy Little Nobody. I gave this book 4 stars out of 5 when I first read it last year, and was expecting it to be a little less […]
Downton Abbey meets the Butterfly Effect — and Hitler
Every once in a while I come across a book that takes me by surprise and leaves me feeling unsure of how I really feel about it. This was one of those. I’m not even sure how to categorize this book, to be quite honest. Last Tuesday I got an email from Meetup about a newly formed book club in a neighbouring town, which was to have its first meeting three days after the meeting of my current book club (I was still rushing to get […]
I know I am in the minority here, but I was kind of disappointed…
I wish I could tell you there is a specific reason why I didn’t like this book, but I can’t. Not really. There was nothing wrong with it. I guess it just didn’t resonate with me. I’ve started to think maybe I threw myself with too much gusto into the genre and it finally came back to bite me. I’ve read Scrappy Little Nobody (which I thought was great), Talking as Fast as I Can (which was good, not great), Bossypants (which I really liked) […]