What did you read this year?
Claire’s
average rating for
2024
3.9
3.9
I want to start by stating that I loved Patchett's Commonwealth and The Dutch House, and I was so hoping to love this but I found it actually just pleasant, easy and sweet, and that in the end wasn't quite enough for me to fall in love with it as many others seem to have done. In the middle of the pandemic, Lara and Joe's three daughters, all in their twenties, return to the family cherry farm to help out. While the women are picking cherries Lar
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Money to Burn by Asta Olivia Nordenhof, translated from Danish by Caroline Waight has a complicated, fascinating and unusual structure. As well as being about a fictional couple - Kurt and Maggie - it is about the narrator's (who is, I'm assuming, Nordenhof) investigation into insurance scam around the fire onboard a ferry called The Scandinavian Star in the 1990s, when 159 died. Kurt invests in the company that buys the ferry, and as well as lea
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