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Things Can Only Get Better: Eighteen Miserable Years in the Life of a Labour Supporter, 1979-1997 by John O'Farrell

4.0

A Frog in the Fjord: One Year in Norway by Lorelou Desjardins

funny informative reflective relaxing fast-paced

4.0

Macroeconomics For Dummies - UK by Peter Antonioni, Manzur Rashid

informative

3.0

It's obvious that this author has a single view of economics and is passing it off as the correct one. 

The three or four times he's talked about unions it's always ina critical or  negative manner, for example. 

He presents economics like it's a science free of value judgments and that's just wrong. 

This Is Your Life by John O'Farrell

lighthearted tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Good. But I felt anxious for large parts of it. If you read it you'll know why

The Year of Living Danishly: Uncovering the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country by Helen Russell

hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted relaxing medium-paced

4.0

The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren

funny hopeful lighthearted relaxing fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No

5.0

Excellent sparking dialogue and prose. Had me chuckling most of the way through

Family Politics by John O'Farrell

hopeful lighthearted reflective relaxing fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

Murder Before Evensong by Richard Coles

funny lighthearted slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.5

Good light hearted read but I don't think there's any way you could have solved the mystery. The cast of characters also was too big. I couldn't remember who was who and the non Central characters weren't different enough from each other

Real Life by Brandon Taylor

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

The author overdid the prose with too much metaphor/similie. He could get through a paragraph without one. 

across the book I found that I just didn't much like Wallace and didn't that much care what happened to him. The big revelations just seemed to come out of the blue and in a way which didn't elicit a strong emotional response for me. 

Not a book I'm going to think much about now it's finished

Lie With Me by Philippe Besson

challenging dark sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

4.5

Another challenging coming of age/first love tragedy. Done really well.