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Dec. 22
December 3rd - 2pm
"The Mercies"
by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
1617. The sea around the remote Norwegian island of Vardo is thrown into a vicious storm. A young woman, Maren, watches as the men of the island, out fishing, perish in an instant.
Vardo is now a place of women . . .
Eighteen months later, a sinister figure arrives. Absalom Cornet has been summoned to bring the women of the island to heel. With him travels his young wife, Ursa.
In her new home, and in Maren, Ursa encounters something she has never seen before: independent women. But where Ursa finds happiness, even love, Absalom sees only a place flooded with a terrible evil, one he must root out at all costs . .
The official ranking of the books we previously read :
2019-2020
Transatlantic - Colum McCann 6.28/10
The Wych Elm - Tana French 5.97/10 The Borrowed - Chan Ho-Kei
Educated - Tara Westover 8.53/10
Unsheltered - Barbara Kingsolver
The Power - Naomi Alderman
War & Turpentine - Stefan Hertmans 7.2/10
Snap - Belinda Bauer
In Another Country and Besides - Maxwell Jacobs
The books' reviews are here!
2020-2021
Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson 6.5/10
Lost Children Archive - Valerie Luiselli 4.6/10
The Salt Path - Raynor Winn 6.2/10
The Bookwoman of Troublesome Creek - K.M. Richardson
7.1/10
Things Fall Apart - Chiuha Achebe 8.07/10
Small Island - Andrea Levy 7.9/10
Girl Woman Other - Bernardine Evaristo 7.3/10
The Dry - Jane Harper 7.3/10
Nothing to Envy - Barbara Demick 8.4/10
Agent Running in the Field - John LeCarré 5.75/10
Thunderstruck - Erik Larson 7.5/10
The Midgnight Library - Matt Haig
2016-2017
After yet another year of reading, here's a reminder of the books we loved, hated or felt rather uninterested by.
"A Meal in Winter" (Sep) 4.4
"Their Eyes Were Watching God" (Oct) 6.83
"A Gap of Time" (Nov) 5.57
"Slade House" (Dec) 6.57
"A Clockwork Orange" (Jan) 6.36
"Orlando" (Feb) 7.96
"The Kraken Wakes" (Mar) 6.75
"Bonk" (Apr) 6.55
"Dirt Music" (May) 7.1
"The Glass Room" (Jun) 7.58
"Genghis Khan" (Jul) 5.63
2015-2016
Here you find the books we've read in the year of 2015/2016.
The Poisonwood Bible 8.63
Blindness 7.83
Kepler 6.57
Go With Me 4.40
The Twin 7.20
Cold Cold Ground 2.88
The Golem and the Djinni 7.93
The Quiet American 7.10
The Memoirs of Hadrien 7.25
English Passengers
2014-2015
Below you can find an overview of all the books we read for the year 2014-2015
The Devil in the White City 5.14
World War Z 7.06
Breakfast at Tiffany's 8.11
The Lives of Girls and Women 7.14
The House on Mango Street 5.93
We Have Always Lived in the Castle 8.00
I am Malala 6.33
Three Day Road 7.25
Lamb 3.71
The Bellwether Revivals 6.80