It’s Week 3 of Nonfiction November, this week hosted by Adventures in Reading, Running and Working From Home. The task? Pair up a nonfiction book with a fiction title. This is my absolute favourite #NFN exercise.
Women and ageing – A Question of Age by Jacinta Parsons and The Motion of the Body Through Space by Lionel Shriver Continue reading
Am I done with 2020 yet? Almost… Continue reading
The Fallback Plan by Leigh Stein was an all-out impulse Kindle buy. And what a top purchase it was.
There’s something exciting about starting a book that you know nothing about, that no one has pressed on you with a “You must read this!” and when you have no expectations (ever had the crushing experience of taking a book on holiday that you have been dying to read, only to start it and hate it?). That was how I approached The Fallback Plan – and I was richly rewarded with laugh-out-loud lines such as –
“All my girlfriends were having the times of their lives, like Jennifer Grey, pre-rhinoplasty.” Continue reading