![]() ![]() Understandable as Boyne’s dislike of “woke culture” may be, this “unsettling” novel won’t help his cause.ĭoubleday 432pp £16.99 The Week Bookshop £13.99 The Week Bookshop And on occasion, he’s positively offensive: one character, a Ukrainian dancer, is a “sort of Eastern European iteration of Little Black Sambo”. Boyne may be a snappy writer, but as a satirist he’s hit-and-miss. It didn’t for me, said Melissa Katsoulis in The Times. (In a tweet, he calls her Aidan rather than Nadia.) At a time when we urgently need good satire, this “uproariously funny” novel “delivers in spades”. The novel centres on “ageing chat-show host” George, who triggers a Twitter pile-on when he “deadnames” the receptionist at his solicitor’s office. ![]() ![]() In The Echo Chamber, he targets three “pet hates”, said Bert Wright in The Sunday Times: “smartphone technology social media and misdirected ‘wokeness’”. Book review: Borges and Me by Jay Parini.Book of the week: Silent Earth by Dave Goulson. ![]()
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Overwhelmed by grief and guilt, Sophie wants to know the truth-and she doesn’t believe the authorities’ opinion that it was a drug deal gone wrong. ![]() ![]() Best friends Sophie and Mina are confronted by a violent masked man in the woods, and Sophie survives but Mina does not. ![]() ![]() ![]() (Not so much the twist, but more in terms of the consequences).Īll in all, I came out of that experience pretty happy with what I got. Still, I remember loving the writing, the plot was great and the payoff was pretty spectacular. ![]() Probably because it had one trope I really hate. The first one, The Good Girl – I liked it, but honestly, it wasn’t my favorite thriller ever. Local Woman Missing is the second Mary Kubica’s book I’ve read. I don’t think it’ll ever be a spear, but it’s mangled enough that it’s got a chiseled point and could stun someone, if not kill. ![]() Local Woman Missing by Mary Kubica – My Review And prompts everyone to question – one more time – what happen to these women 11 years ago. It does, however, stir up some old ghosts. But her return doesn’t enlighten the whole thing as much as everyone hoped it would. And for 11 years no one knew what happened to Delilah. The investigation brought answers that only asked more questions. First Shelby Tebow, soon after Meredith Dickey and her daughter, Delilah. On a quiet street in a peaceful community, three people had gone missing. To some people, their secrets are more important than other people’s lives. We hadn’t known Shelby, but it was all over Facebook and then, later in the day, in the paper and on the news: Local Woman Missing. 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