Jude, Wendy and Adele have the kinds of problems we could see ourselves having. But that’s not to say that this novel isn’t also steeped in symbolism. Wendy’s elderly dog Finn totters in and out of almost every scene: feeble, befuddled and incontinent. Early in the weekend, Jude, while watching him through the kitchen window, “nothing between them but a pane of glass”, reflects: “This was what happened to animals, and to humans, he was all failure and collapse, all decay. It was pitiful.” You're pulled into the spellbinding world of then versus now... the story twists between present day, told from Cassie's point of view and the 1950s, which is really accurately portrayed. I'm usually a contemporary fiction reader all the way, but this period portrayal is so well-done, and I loved it. The character of Lindie, especially, makes your heart ache. As the book flips between time and the story unfolds, you become completely enmeshed in the characters' world; Beverly Whittemore does such a good job of creating them that you feel with them and really become part of their lives. But in a postscript written last year, he draws hope from Iceland’s success in confronting the challenge of Covid-19: “the crisis has shown us the importance of understanding science and applying it to future realities.” There might still be time to save the glaciers. Novelist and politician Shintaro Ishihara described Breasts and Eggs as “unpleasant and intolerable”, which might be another way to say that it is not afraid of sperm, used menstrual pads, poverty and the working poor. Natsuko’s language, as translated by Bett and Boyd, is actually quite polite. I had the feeling of listening to someone speaking in the dark: casual intimacies interspersed with fanciful, terrifying and dreamlike interludes.

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Like “Bittersweet” this new novel is peopled with realistic and well-developed characters. Some are likable and some are not – but they all engage the reader. I would like to thank Blogging For Books for a print copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.* and how it also show's you how difficult it was to being a woman who dressed like a man and loved women in the nineteen fifties and that it wasn't exactly a walk in the park and how far we came to day. There are leaps of joy in Actress, for all its darkness. It sparkles with light, rapid, shrugging wit; cliches are skewered in seconds, and thespian types are affectionately set in motion to carry on chatting in the margins. Memories of tender, uncoercive love shine out between the illness and confused attachments and violence.I enjoyed reading about the author’s personal connection, inspiration, and research behind the novel--personally, a lover of preservation and historic properties. Highly recommend June as well as Bittersweet! This funny and plangent book is shot through with an aching awareness that though our individual existence is a “litany of small tragedies”, these tragedies are life-sized to us. It’s difficult to think of any other novelist working now who writes about both youth and middle age with such sympathy, and without condescending to either.

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As I have said, the house is falling down around Cassie. She has overdue bills coming in that she pays no attention to and phone calls she never answers. She has no family, as her parents died when she was 8 and her grandmother raised her. There are things with her grandmother that have her on this downward spiral as well.

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Fans of Karen White and T. Greenwood -literary, historical, mystery, and domestic suspense fans will devour! the characters themselves, how she makes you even fall for them even the ones , your suppose to hate and dislike and fell sorry for.

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Tara is a restless and discontented young woman in 1980s India, who becomes so enthralled by a guru at a local ashram that she neglects her baby and abandons her marriage. She is absent and unrepentant, thoughtless of her daughter Antara, who later dispassionately describes how she “would disappear every day, dripping with milk, leaving me unfed”. This has been a busy morning for me, perusing all the June releases!!!!! When really, I probably should have been reading or walking (between breaks in the rain). Magnason’s moving and heartfelt paean to glaciers turns the science of the climate crisis into a story of personal loss. He draws on the experiences of his family and relatives, as well as Iceland’s rich cultural relationship to its wild and rugged landscape, to communicate the true scale of the catastrophe that is coming and its impact on lives and societies. Kampfner is right to ask us to imagine a Britain with more honest politicians, a more serious press, a more mature understanding of its place in the world, more industry, smaller regional disparities and indeed better windows. Yet, apart from the windows, Britain surely once had all these things. For one of the lessons of this book is not just that things are different in different places, but that they change over time, and things don’t necessarily get better. To previous generations, glaciers were seemingly eternal, their scale of change measured in centuries. Now glaciers are melting within a person’s lifetime. During the 20th century Vatnajökull shrank by 10%, and it’s losing 100 cubic kilometres of ice a year. By the time Magnason’s young children have grown old, many more will have gone: “where the glacier once touched the sky, there will be only sky”. Indeed by the end of this century, “the life of almost all the glaciers outside the Arctic will end”. Iceland will be a land without ice.

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Palace of Palms: Tropical Dreams and the Making of Kew Kate Teltscher Rich biography of Kew Garden's Palm House In Barnes’s lavishly illustrated account, Pozzi proves an illuminating figure in this rare company. He was a politician and senator as well as a precociously talented surgeon, first specialising in gunshot wounds. He transformed the practice of gynaecology, setting the first guidelines to a woman’s comfort in examination, and writing a definitive two-volume treatise that established the specialism in its own right. He found time to translate Darwin, become a connoisseur of all manner of art, travel extensively to everywhere from Buenos Aires to Beirut and became a lieutenant-colonel in the Great War. He married Thérèse Loth-Cazalis, a “provincial virgin of 23”, heiress to a family that had made a sudden fortune from the railways. Their eldest child, Catherine, a novelist and compulsive diarist, provides Barnes with invaluable insights into her parents’ unhappy marriage, and a shifting, intimate commentary of her father’s prodigious abilities and flagrant infidelities. Both mother and daughter are much haunted by the question of what is in their power to give, and what is stolen from them. Both need to articulate their own stories, but it’s no simple task. From the New York Times bestselling author of Bittersweet comes a novel of suspense and passion about a terrible mistake made sixty years ago that threatens to change a modern family forever. I'm going to sum this up as simply as I can. JUNE, in my opinion, was filled with cliche after boring cliche and was ridiculously convoluted.

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As for this one, the central storyline seems to revolve around a young girl currently living in a rundown mansion in a small town in Ohio, an inheritance from her grandmother (the June of the book's title), who took over raising Cassie when both of her parents were killed in a car crash.Okjökull glacier was the first of Iceland’s glaciers to lose its official status as a glacier. What was once a 50-square-kilometre ice cap is now just one square kilometre of dead ice. In 2019, the Icelandic writer and filmmaker Magnason was asked to write the text for a memorial to Okjökull: “I wondered at the absurdity of the task. How do you say goodbye to a glacier?” As the basis of an identity narrative for the 21st century, I found this utterly compelling. I couldn’t put the book down, and at times I laughed out loud. I also cried. Teltscher’s richly researched biography of this iconic structure is not just about the design and construction of this remarkable building, but also about plants, people and power in the Victorian age: “the Palm House provides a glittering prism through which to view Britain’s real and imagined place in the world.” At night, Cassie dreamed of colorful people and events occurring in the house, but her days were troubled by the encroaching weeds in the garden and the mail piling up in the foyer.