Latest reviews and scores for Second-Hand Time by Svetlana Alexievich over on the main site. It's an extraordinary work, no easy read, but something that is likely to change the way you think (and aren't all the best things like that?).
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5 highest rated
- 01 My Brilliant Friend, Elena Ferrante
91 A memorable, absorbing and compulsive read. - 02 The Narrow Road to the Deep North
90 An important read. Booker winner, 2014. - 02 The Road, Cormac McCarthy
90 Haunting, terrifying, powerful and amazing - 03 Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari
Stimulating, insightful and entertaining - 04 H is for Hawk, Helen Macdonald
Emotive, extraordinary and beautiful - 04 I Was Amelia Earhart, Jane Mendelsohn
A book that leaves the world behind - 05 A Brief History of Seven Killings, Marlon James
Challenging, but a thoroughly worthwhile and rewarding read
5 lowest rated
- 01 The Finkler Question, Howard Jacobson
18 Baffling. We wanted to like it... - 02 The Second Coming, John Niven
39 Not funny and full of plot holes - 03 The Road Home, Rose Tremain
45 Not up to Tremain's usual standard - 04 Burley Cross Postbox Theft
Clunky and annoying. We had high expectations from this writer – a disappointment. - 05 The Noise of Time, Julian Barnes
Not terrible, just could have been better. A surprise disappointment from this author.
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Monday, 13 March 2017
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5 most recent Book Club books
- 01 The Snow Leopard
Peter Matthiessen travels through remote peaks in the Himalayas while inwardly following his own spiritual journey. - 02 Lincoln in the Bardo
George Saunders' novel of the supernatural - 04 Hag Seed
Margaret Atwood's lightly enjoyable retelling of Shakespeare's Tempest. - 03 The Prophets of Eternal Fjord
Kim Leine's Nordic Council prize winning historical epic on the Danish colonisation of Greenland - 05 Second-Hand Time
Svetlana Alexievich's Nobel Prize winning oral history of the USSR.