Tag: USA

• History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund (2017)

  I had vaguely heard of this book before I saw it in Waterstones – probably because it was shortlisted for the Booker in 2017. I was in Barnstaple and wandering around the bookshop, having stupidly taken only one book away on holiday with me (perhaps the first time I have ever done that), and have […]

  Lizzi

  June 15, 2018

  Fiction, Reviews

  2017, Coming of age story, Emily Fridlund, Fiction, Grove Atlantic, History of Wolves, Minnesota, Paperback, USA, Weidenfeld & Nicolson

• Where I Was From by Joan Didion (2003)

  A disclaimer: I did not manage to finish this book, even though it’s not very long. I love Joan Didion’s journalistic writing, as well as the two other memoirs of hers that I have read (The Year of Magical Thinking and Blue Nights), but I just could not get on with Where I Was From. […]

  Lizzi

  April 16, 2018

  Non-Fiction, Reviews

  2003, Autobiography, California, Harper Perennial, Joan Didion, Knopf, Memoir, Non Fiction, Paperback, USA, Where I Was From