
Hello! I am Lizzie, and my main joy in life is reading books and thinking about books! I have so many thoughts about each book I read so wanted a place to record these thoughts, and a place where others who are reading the same book as me can share their thoughts about it too. I’ve tried to write my (often lengthy!) reviews of books so it feels like I am chatting with you as we read the book together, comparing thoughts at the end of a chapter and ideas of where the plot and characters may end up, wondering why the author has written a character or scene in a particular way and what they may be subtly trying to tell us about that character or scene. So enjoy reading along with me, and please get in touch, I’d love to be able to discover more about a favourite book from your thoughts on it.

I read this book years and years ago and don’t remember much about it, so it feels like I am reading it for the first time again now when I pick it up. I do remember that when I read it then I viewed it as rather a depressing book, so I’m keen to re-examine that sweeping statement from my younger self (!) and look deeper into the book and study its complexities and themes and the author’s writing (which I do remember as being quite poetical in its descriptiveness), and to see if now I am older I find more in the book to challenge that view of it being depressing. Grab your copy and let’s read it together! Read the full review