It’s been such a long time since I read Kate Atkinson’s Life After Life that I realized a few chapters in that I was slightly confusing certain aspects about the family with Kate Morton’s novel The Lake House. Mostly just birthing order and Teddy’s age – I thought he was the youngest and conceived after his father’s return from World War I when he was actually born in 1914 and not the last sibling. However, I definitely remembered that he was Ursula’s favorite sibling, his […]
Life After Life After Life After Life…
I kept picking up Kate Atkinson’s Life After Life every time I was in a book store for years. I’d seen the BBC adaptation of some of her Jackson Brodie stories at one point and for whatever reason felt like I needed to read those first. I don’t know why, as this novel is wholly separate from that detective series. In any case it showed up as a Kindle Deal of the Day a few months ago and I finally pulled the trigger. I’m so […]
When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
I don’t want to tell you what this book does, as a piece of fiction, but I will tell you what it’s about. This is a kind of sequel, kind of companion piece to the other Kate Atkinson novel Life after Life, which I listened on a long hike. At first in that one it was frustrating to keep up with the premise, which involves the same character starting and restarting life as she keeps hitting the same fatal snags, and sort of nudging her choices […]
Weekender Edition
Started Early, Took the Dog – 4/5 Stars Not the best of the bunch, but a good one to end on. Kate Atkinson feels like she’s setting herself up to write the best writing of her career. This is a good novel, and it’s still better than the first of the series. For those of you who know about these books, they are “mysteries” in the sense that a mystery happens, and as happens with the others, Jackson Brodie, her detective kind of mostly accidentally […]
A spy, a Scottish detective, and a gender-less narrator walk into a book
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy: 3/5 Stars Sometimes when I have seen the movie version of a book first, I run out the same day and find a copy of the book. Sometimes I even go read books for movies coming out even if I have no desire to see the movie, just in case I ACCIDENTALLY see the movie. I am not saying it’s sane; it’s just what I do. With this one, I saw the movie a few years back and I think I […]
Well I liked this one way better than the first one
I read the first book in this series, Case Histories, about a year or so ago after having already read Life After Life. I thought Case Histories was a little throwaway (or tear-away) but really really really liked Life After Life. I wouldn’t have gone out of my way to read this one except that I found the audiobook and even then I was hesitant and kept putting it off. Turns out I really liked it. A lot of the stuff I didn’t like about the first […]
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