Week beginning 19 April 2023

NetGalley provided me with the following uncorrected proofs for review. The first, The Women Who Wouldn’t Leave, is a good read. Unfortunately, the other two books are extremely disappointing. Miranda Rijks’ The Other Mother follows others I have read by this author. They have been fairly good beach reads, and for GoodReads I have ratedContinue reading “Week beginning 19 April 2023”

Week beginning 4 August 2021

This week I am catching up with reviews that I have written for NetGalley, posted to Goodreads, and other social networks, but not included in this blog. Both are fiction. The first, Waiting To Begin, by Amanda Prowse was a disappointment, but Louise Candlish’s The Heights was a very satisfying read. ‘The Bipartisan Infrastructure DealContinue reading “Week beginning 4 August 2021”

Week beginning 9 June 2021

Book Reviews this week are the non fiction, Superman’s Not Coming, and a novel that features some of the same issues, Patricia Hunt Holmes’ Crude Ambition. Erin Brockovich with Suzanne Boothby, Superman’s Not Coming Our National Water Crisis and What We the People Can Do About It, Pantheon Books 2021 I saw the film, ErinContinue reading “Week beginning 9 June 2021”