I’m on a roll with really, really good books lately. This is a good thing, but makes the review part more tricky. My reviews for books that move me tend to be sort of bland. I think that I am trying not to get all “Read This Right Now!” and fan girly about it and that restraint leads to ho-hum reviews. I am sorry about that. So, I guess for this one I will say READ THIS RIGHT NOW ! This is a tiny little […]
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A View of the Harbour – 4/5 stars In this smallish novel, we visit a seaside town in southern England in years briefly after WWII. We get a whole cast of different characters, a local artist, a local writer, a single mother, a war widow, a doctor, and town drunk, and various other figures that come and go into the narrative. There is not a story as such, so much as how the various figures in the town interplay, interact and go about their business. […]