A Good Twist
Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister
The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
I’ve read all four of these, and they stand out as books that, at least in part, surprised me. The best for this were Gone Girl, The Thursday Murder Club and Wrong Place Wrong Time. I had kind of guessed The Paris Apartment whodunit, but there was still a good twist I didn’t see coming, so it gets a spot!
Intergenerational Friendship
Frank & Red by Matt Coyne
Bucket List by Russell Jones
The Mostly True Story of Tanner & Louse by Colleen Oakley
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
The Story of Arthur Truluv by Elizabeth Berg
The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin
All of these are books I read and enjoyed a lot, and all of them stood out for their intergenerational friendships, and just for their emotional impact in general. I enjoyed all of them, but probably my favourites were How to Age Disgracefully, Frank & Red, The Bucket List and Friends of Dorothy. But I’d recommend all of them!
Neurodivergence/Neurodivergent Coded
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
This is where I haven’t read one – The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time I started and got a decent part of the way through, but found that it moved too slowly for me and I couldn’t stick with it. I put this down to my ADHD brain rather than the book itself, and I do think it’s an excellent book from what I did read. The other three I have read and liked, though The Rosie Project I vaguely remember being a bit problematic. A Man Called Ove doesn’t label Ove, but it felt to me as I was reading that he was coded as being on the autism spectrum (I’ve noticed unnamed but recognizable neurodivergence and/or mental health issues in all of his books I’ve started or read so far, and I like that about his work – it’s not made a big deal of, but it’s there). The Things We Cannot Say is a newer read for me, but I enjoyed that the parts set in the present have a young boy who is on the autism spectrum, and I loved seeing his family learn and grow with him.
That’s it for me this week! Have you read any of these? If so, what did you think? Any you want to read? Any that fit my themes that aren’t on this list that you’d like to recommend?
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