You will either love or loathe Reservoir 13 from Costa Book Award winner Jon McGregor. It is to me an odd book and tells the story of the disappearance of Rebecca Shaw, a young girl on holiday at a village in the peak district in the early years of this century. If you are expecting a crime novel th...
On one hand, the nature writing in this book is wonderful. The story is basically what happens in a town after a young girl goes missing. The young girl is not local, so the village has the misfortune of being both setting and possible culprit. The problem for me, though, is that there is far, f...
Imagine you're going to a party. Maybe parties aren't your thing, but come along anyway. It's a social gathering, mostly just standing around, drink in hand, talking with one another. You're new to town. You know no one. The host grabs ahold of you and introduces you to the other guests. Most of the...
I found "Reservoir 13" hard to engage with at first. This partly the (I suspect, deliberate) frustration of my expectations and partly the style in which the people and events are presented. The blurb says "Reservoir 13 tells the story of many lives haunted by one family's loss." The book opens ...
Thanks to NetGalley and to Haper Collins UK Fourth State for offering me an ARC copy of this book that I freely chose to review. I had never read one of Jon McGregor’s novels before but I was curious by the description of this novel and more curious when I saw it had been long-listed for the Man Boo...
bookshelves: summer-2011, published-2002, one-penny-wonder, paper-read, booker-longlist Read from August 24 to September 01, 2011 ** spoiler alert ** Yay - one penny hardback LARGE PRINT version. Sometimes I don't pull the short straw. Stamped 'withdrawn' from Gateshead Libraries.If you listen, ...
Dedication: To AliceOpening: They came in the morning, early, walking with the others along tracks and lanes and roads, across fields, down the long low hills which led to the slow pull of the river, down to the open gateways in the city walls, the hours and days of walking showing in the slow shift...
The book felt more like an experience than a story, albeit not a particularly interesting or enjoyable one, nor one I would choose to experience again. A lot of the book was build-up for the remarkable thing, and it's not until you look back that some of the (smaller) remarkable things become cleare...
I found Jon McGregor's new novel dull, dull, dull. It's a stream of consciousness story about drug addicts and it's just as unappealing as that sounds. I found it to be a quick read and thank goodness for that, because I don't know how much longer I could have read it if it had been any longer.
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