Only a short list this fortnight because I’ve also been working my way through The girl who kicked the hornet’s nest and Parky: an autobiography, both listed in Book Project Update #4. While Parky was a breeze to read the sheer weight of The girl who kicked the hornet’s nest - at least a kilo - excludes me from enjoying it during my prime reading time on the bus to work.
Too close to home by Linwood Barclay
Forgettable is the first word that comes to mind when trying to describe this crime novel. Seriously - it’s been about three days now since I finished it and I am struggling to recall the plot. I know there was a murder... And a gun... And, hmmm, a prostitute. Maybe...?
The last breath by Denise Mina
Set in Glasgow in 1990, this typically bleak Scottish novel has an Irish protagonist and an at-times baffling IRA-themed plot. Did “the troubles” jump the ditch to Scotland in the early 90’s? I’m not sure but it’s worth persevering with for no other reason than the fat, irreverent, gloriously failed-Catholic newspaper columnist, heroine Paddy Meehan.
Look me in the eye by John Elder Robison
A fascinating memoir about growing up with Asperger’s before the label had been invented by the brother of Austen Burroughs, who documented his own childhood struggles in the bleakly funny Running with Scissors. Books like this make me think how comparatively great my own childhood was.
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