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November 3rd - 2pm
"Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch"
by Rivka Galchen
The plague is spreading. The hundred year war is beginning. Katharina Kepler is believed to be a witch.
Known for her herbal remedies and successful children - among them Johannes, Imperial Mathematician and author of the laws of planetary motion - Katharina's life is changed by an accusation of witchcraft. Facing financial ruin, torture and even execution, she tells her side of the story. Witty, engaging and vividly imagined, Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch draws on historical documents to illuminate a society undone by collective aggression and hysterical fear - a narrative with true resonance for today.
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!
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
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
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
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