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Rachel Reviews: The Axeman's Jazz by Ray Celestin
The draw of the book is arbitrary, is it not? In this case, the cover and the title spoke to me. The Axeman's Jazz is just begging for more questions to be asked, don't you think? Who is the Axeman and why Jazz? As a result of this, I decided to purloin this book on a whim and I wasn't disappointed.
By Rachel Deeming10 months ago in BookClub
Rachel Reviews: Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
Sally Rooney has been on my radar after watching Normal People on the TV, which I thoroughly enjoyed. Actually, enjoyed is probably not the right word as that implies fun and lightness, but as with Conversations with Friends, her stories are not really what I would call easy: they are close examinations of the intricacies and complexities of relationships and the people involved in them and I have to say that she depicts these very well.
By Rachel Deeming10 months ago in BookClub
Absent Integrity
The world today has got me in thoughtful mode. There's a lot not to like and I do feel like we are bombarded with what is wrong rather than what is right, probably because the "wrong" stuff is so much more potent and jaw-dropping than the "right".
By Rachel Deeming11 months ago in Writers
Rachel Reviews: The Serial Killer's Wife by Alice Hunter
I do love a recommendation and when my aunty told me that this was a good book, I was bound to give it a go, her taste aligning with mine a lot of the time. It was also because there is a series of the same name on British TV which my aunty had said was very different to the book and what did I think? No sphere of reference meant no comment so I decided to delve.
By Rachel Deeming11 months ago in BookClub
Generate me a comment please!. Content Warning.
Dum de dum...just a little input here...take the essence of this story...put it in the AI generator...and BAM! There's a great comment, people! Look at that! It's only condensed all of that story into a nice little piece of text that I can just cut and paste, like this, into this box, at the end here. Et voila! Instant involved comment without having to think!
By Rachel Deeming11 months ago in Fiction
Rachel Reviews: The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
When your 14 year old boy, who doesn't read fiction, tells you to read The Hate U Give because "I think you'll like it, Mum", you don't decline. You pick that book up and you devour it. And it wasn't hard to like this book although in a lot of ways, there's not a lot to like.
By Rachel Deeming11 months ago in BookClub
