Five For Friday #7: Book Reviews

During the week, the Bibliothèque elves have been updating my book reviews on the website and on Goodreads. Writing reviews is a good way to get the ink flowing, and it also forces me to articulate my thoughts on the books I read. And, as an author, I know how valuable it is—especially for independent authors—to get this kind of feedback from readers. (I generally do not rate books using the star system: it is too blunt an instrument to give a fair assessment. There are multiple criteria for evaluating a book, and a single scale cannot capture that.)

The five reviews I have chosen reflect a range of book genres, and a range of reasons for review: I review for Children's Books Ireland and BookSirens as well as for my own pleasure.

1. Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer (Farrar, Strauss and Giroux: 2014). Southern Reach Trilogy #1.

2. Elsetime by Eve McDonnell (Everything With Words: 2020)

3. Gold by Geraldine Mills (Little Island: 2017)

4. Lucia by Alex Pheby (Galley Beggar: 2018)

5. Nostalgia by Mircea Cărtărescu; trans. Julian Semilian (Penguin Modern Classics)

By the way, anyone wondering where the July newsletter is: Reader, I didn't do one. There, I've admitted it! Normal service will resume for August.  

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