Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk - Kathleen Rooney I think we both finished in a couple of days! It’s pretty much one big long therapy session until, at the very end, the twist is revealed. I started reading this as soon as a friend posted on Instagram that she was reading it. I prefer to think of her as supernatural. Either you think it’s great storytelling or you think it’s too farfetched that 6 year-old could raise herself without any adult intervention. It’s one of the parts of the book that divide people. The ending was a fizzle out I enjoyed it so much until then that I didn’t mind.Įven though this is a murder mystery, the most compelling part of the story for me was the survival story of the main character, Kya. I can get confused reading books that bounce around in time but this one, I didn’t. Most of the bad reviews noted how confusing it was and that she introduced characters out of nowhere. It was perfect light reading with enough Indian culture mixed in that kept it from being total fluff. Not sure if the ending was satisfying because it was a great ending or because it was finally over.Įrotic Stories for Punjabi Widows - Balli Kaur JaswalĪ fellow traveler in India recommended this book and I downloaded it for the trip home. I had to be totally engaged to keep up with the thread and found myself going back to refresh my memory on the characters. It started out murder mystery and went into Groundhog Day.

This wasn’t at all what I thought it would be. The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle - Stuart Turton I’ll be adding more Mohsin Hamid books to my list. I highly recommend this book along with How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia. I devoured it in a day! It’s a story of a Pakistani young man before, during, and after 9/11. Mohsin Hamid has the remarkable talent of telling a gripping story in a mere 228 pages. The Reluctant Fundamentalist - Mohsin Hamid

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