My Book Reviews

The best fiction book I read for years; it is a very impressive book. The fact that the chapters were jumping up and down through times did not disturb me at all. It normally does, it gives the dreadful feeling that the writer wants to create art. In this book it works perfectly okay, it is like getting the edges of a jigsaw puzzle first and later the bits inside. It really makes sense. I also have strong feelings about the point of view in a novel. I totally forgot these while reading this dazzling work. It is about (shocking) experiences and what they mean to the person who lives through them and the effect it has on the people who live or meet this person. In my eyes the book would have been perfect without the last two chapters. Yet I understand why they have been included. The writer states that this is a "companion" novel to another novel, the bestseller "Life after life". That probably is the reason why, although I did not read that book (yet). All in all I v

The book was a very interesting read. I gave it 5 stars. It shows that there is no need to use very difficult words and constructed sentences to write an academic work.  I was not surprised to read about the hatred for things/people there was no real knowledge of. What really hit me was the ignorance and low standards of thinking and speaking by politicians in both the House of Commons and the House of Lords.  In other countries there is a sort of admiration for the "oldest democracy" in the world. I think there is no need for that. Politicians in the UK have no higher qualification or standards than in most of the other nations.