Book Reviews

‘The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours.’ Alan Bennett

“Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.” ― Franz Kafka

Wednesday, 30 November 2011

Wishlist Wednesday

I'm taking part in a weekly blog hop today, hosted by Dani at Pen to Paper. Visit the site and join in.

Wishlist Wednesday is a book blog hop where we will post about one book per week that has been on our wishlist for some time, or just added (it's entirely up to you), that we can't wait to get off the wishlist and onto our wonderful shelves.


This week the book I am highlighting that is on my wishlist is Night Waking by Sarah Moss

Synopsis from goodreads:
Historian Anna Bennett has a book to write. She also has an insomniac toddler, a precocious, death-obsessed seven-year-old, and a frequently absent ecologist husband who has brought them all to Colsay, a desolate island in the Hebrides, so he can count the puffins. Ferociously sleep-deprived, torn between mothering and her desire for the pleasures of work and solitude, Anna becomes haunted by the discovery of a baby's skeleton in the garden of their house. Her narrative is punctuated by letters home, written 200 years before, by May, a young, middle-class midwife desperately trying to introduce modern medicine to the suspicious, insular islanders. The lives of these two characters intersect unexpectedly in this deeply moving but also at times blackly funny story about maternal ambivalence, the way we try to control children, and about women's vexed and passionate relationship with work. Moss's second novel displays an exciting expansion of her range - showing her to be both an excellent comic writer and a novelist of great emotional depth.


I haven't read anything by this author before, but I think this one sounds intriguing. Plus I love puffins! :)

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3 comments:

  1. Melissas Eclectic Bookshelf30 November 2011 at 15:49

    Sounds like an intriguing premise! A lot wrapped all in one: culture vs progress. Whether it be the topic of "medical progress" or females working....

    Thanks for visiting My Wishlist Pick!

    PS I snagged your button too!

    ♥ Melissa @ Melissa's Eclectic Bookshelf

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  2. Chocolate Chunky Munkie30 November 2011 at 22:09

    Oooh this sounds a good book Linsday :D I hope you manage to get a copy soon!

    Jen xx

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  3. Kristin_Texas1 December 2011 at 20:32

    This sounds interesting, and yes... those puffins are adorable! I wish I could visit Scotland one day just to see the little cuties.

    Thanks for visiting my blog!

    Kristin

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