Avni Doshi’s Burnt Sugar
Book Review of Avni Doshi’s Burnt Sugar Avni Doshi won a a Charles Pick writing Fellowship at the University of East Anglia in 2014. Set in Pune in the west-central Maharashtra state in India, Burnt Sugar is primarily an exploration of a dysfunctional mother/daughter relationship. Burnt Sugar is told from the viewpoint of Anantara. who we learn had an unconventional […]
Colson Whitehead’s The Nickel Boys
Book Review of Colson Whitehead’s The Nickel Boys I really enjoyed The Underground Railroad, but I think enjoyed The Nickel Boys even more. My husband enjoys fiction with well-developed characters and a defined ‘plot’ line. The largely linear narrative of The Nickel Boys, at least for the first two sections of the story with a definite […]
Kiley Reid’s Such a Fun Age
Book Review of Kiley Reid’s Such A Fun Age As a rule I wouldn’t comment on a book cover, but the sleeve of Such a Fun Age really pulled me in. Jojo Moyes’ comment “I couldn’t put this down” promoted its accessibility. In addition, the positive comments from both the Times “A new literary star” and the […]
Why I’m No Longer Talking To White People About Race
Book Review of Reni Eddo-Lodge’s Why I’m No Longer Talking To White People About Race Reni Eddo-Lodge’s Why I’m No Longer Talking To White People About Race was first published in 2017. It shares a title with a blog post she published in 2014, but wrote in 2012 with the same title. She explains how she doesn’t […]
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus
Book Review of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus I absolutely adore Adichie’s books, so it was a joy to revisit Purple Hibiscus.The story is told by fifteen year old Kambili whose father, Eugene, is a wealthy business man and prominent public figure. He takes huge personal risks in publishing stories in his newspaper, The Standard, that […]
Leaving Bangkok
Returning from Overseas I woke up this morning to a typically wet and drizzly English day. The sky is a blanket of grey cloud and there’s a chill in the air. When I don’t need to go anywhere I quite enjoy a rainy day. Settling indoors with a book and, ideally, a bar of chocolate […]