The Luminaries – Cannonball Read 17

I liked this upon finishing it five months ago . . .

The Luminaries (The Luminaries, #1) by Susan Dennard

September 7, 2023 by narfna Leave a Comment

. . . but I have since had almost everything about it fall out of my head. Had I written this review right after finishing like a good little reviewer, it would have been four stars, but I think the fact that it hasn’t stuck with me and I had to look up so much in order to even write this paltry review is definitely working against the book, and I’ve bumped it down to 3.5 stars, rounded down, as a result. Also I remembered […]

October 2, 2014 by Mrs Smith Reads 1 Comment

In 1866, the South Island of New Zealand was the hottest frontier for those who wanted to find their fortunes in the unexplored territories of the Southern Hemisphere. The California gold fields were mostly played out, so Europeans who had missed the opportunities of the fledgling West of America were booking passage to Dunedin, then on to Hokitika for a chance to strike it rich in the newly discovered gold fields. This exotic and diverse world becomes the setting for Eleanor Catton’s Booker Prize winning, expansive novel The […]

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Filed Under: Fiction, History, Mystery Tagged With: Book Prize, Eleanor Catton, Fiction, Mrs Smith Reads, mystery, New Zealand, The Luminaries

Mrs Smith Reads's CBR6 Review No:10 · Genres: Fiction, History, Mystery · Tags: Book Prize, Eleanor Catton, Fiction, Mrs Smith Reads, mystery, New Zealand, The Luminaries ·

Who were the homestead wives, who were the gold rush brides?

March 4, 2014 by popcultureboy 3 Comments

In which Popcultureboy is left floored by and in awe of Catton’s supreme mastery and skill as a writer and storyteller, but is ultimately forced to conclude he found the novel easier to admire than to love. So here we are at the pinnacle of the Booker challenge for 2013, with the winning book. There were some firsts with this book lifting the Booker, as it was the longest ever book to do so with the highest page count (Catton is 28, and the book […]

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