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• Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell reviewed by @tinyapartmentbigtbr

  8/ 108 out of 10

  Two winters. Finally finished.

  Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell · @tinyapartmentbigtbr · 15 Aug 2026

• Angela's Ashes reviewed by @w_okonkwo

  7/ 107 out of 10

  Funnier than its reputation, and longer.

  Angela's Ashes · @w_okonkwo · 15 Aug 2026

  11 reader agrees with this review

• The Time Traveler’s Wife reviewed by @plainjaneausten

  7/ 107 out of 10

  the concept is unhinged and I love it and ALSO I have so many questions the book very much does not want me to ask?? seven. cried anyway. obviously.

  The Time Traveler’s Wife · @plainjaneausten · 14 Aug 2026

• Mistborn reviewed by @three_chapters_in

  9/ 109 out of 10

  genuinely might finish this one? I'm nearly at the end, which for me is unheard of. Vin is great. and the magic system makes actual sense, which I did not expect from a book with this many made-up words in it

  Mistborn · @three_chapters_in · 14 Aug 2026

• The Fire Next Time reviewed by @w_okonkwo

  10/ 1010 out of 10

  Reread it on a delayed train to Manchester and got off angrier and better company than I got on. Sixty years and nobody has written a better sentence about that country.

  The Fire Next Time · @w_okonkwo · 14 Aug 2026

• Station Eleven reviewed by @commuterfiction

  7/ 107 out of 10

  An actor dies on stage during King Lear and a flu arrives in the same week. Twenty years later a group of musicians and actors walk between settlements in Michigan performing Shakespeare. A comic book connects them.

  Station Eleven · @commuterfiction · 14 Aug 2026

• Middlemarch reviewed by @an_ordinary_tuesday

  9/ 109 out of 10

  Dorothea deserved better.

  Middlemarch · @an_ordinary_tuesday · 14 Aug 2026

  77 readers agree with this review

• Beach Read reviewed by @plainjaneausten

  7/ 107 out of 10

  two writers swap genres, I'm in

  Beach Read · @plainjaneausten · 14 Aug 2026

  22 readers agree with this review

• Life After Life reviewed by @bookclubdropout

  7/ 107 out of 10

  Minutes of a meeting nobody chaired.

  Life After Life · @bookclubdropout · 13 Aug 2026

• The Book Thief reviewed by @libbyoverdrive

  7/ 107 out of 10

  Sixteen hours and the narrator has a lovely voice for it, very warm, but I ran it at 1.6 and I think that was too fast for what it's doing. Seven, with the caveat that I probably shortchanged it. Queue was only 9!

  The Book Thief · @libbyoverdrive · 13 Aug 2026

• Circe reviewed by @bookclubdropout

  8/ 108 out of 10

  Arguing about Odysseus for ninety minutes with no crisps left.

  Circe · @bookclubdropout · 13 Aug 2026

  22 readers agree with this review

• The Hidden Life of Trees reviewed by @mossandink

  6/ 106 out of 10

  Kind-hearted, and useful on beech and on how a wood holds water. He keeps telling me the trees are friends, are mothers, are talking; and each time he does it I trust the observation a little less. Fine for a beginner. Not for me.

  The Hidden Life of Trees · @mossandink · 13 Aug 2026

• Influence reviewed by @verity_lane

  6/ 106 out of 10

  No plot to protect for once! Bit of a relief and also a bit of a loss? Reciprocity chapter earns its place. The rest I'd already absorbed from twenty years of being sold things.

  Influence · @verity_lane · 12 Aug 2026

• Godel, Escher, Bach reviewed by @annotatedannie

  9/ 109 out of 10

  Eleven weeks and I understood perhaps 60 percent of it. 1) the dialogues are the reason to read it 2) the formal chapters are the price you pay. Green tabs throughout, so I now have a reading list that'll take two years.

  Godel, Escher, Bach · @annotatedannie · 12 Aug 2026

• Notes of a Native Son reviewed by @w_okonkwo

  9/ 109 out of 10

  The title essay ruined me for other essays and I've been writing worse ones ever since.

  Notes of a Native Son · @w_okonkwo · 12 Aug 2026

• Memoirs of a Geisha reviewed by @bookclubdropout

  5/ 105 out of 10

  Do you know how long six women can spend on whether an American bloke should have written this? Ninety minutes. Then Yvonne said "yes but did you enjoy it" and the room went quiet, and I'd said I liked it earlier, when it was safe.

  Memoirs of a Geisha · @bookclubdropout · 11 Aug 2026

• Rebecca reviewed by @plainjaneausten

  9/ 109 out of 10

  the costume ball!!! I had to put the book down and walk round the kitchen for a bit. Steph asked if I was alright. I was not alright.

  Rebecca · @plainjaneausten · 11 Aug 2026

• I Am Pilgrim reviewed by @commuterfiction

  5/ 105 out of 10

  An investigator comes out of retirement.

  I Am Pilgrim · @commuterfiction · 10 Aug 2026

• Siddhartha reviewed by @quietcarriage

  6/ 106 out of 10

  Put-downable, and not kindly.

  Siddhartha · @quietcarriage · 10 Aug 2026

• Six of Crows reviewed by @three_chapters_in

  9/ 109 out of 10

  ok I actually finished one!! first time since about February. Kaz. that is the review. Kaz.

  Six of Crows · @three_chapters_in · 10 Aug 2026

• Atomic Habits reviewed by @commuterfiction

  6/ 106 out of 10

  A man is hit with a baseball bat.

  Atomic Habits · @commuterfiction · 10 Aug 2026

• Blindsight reviewed by @kepler22b

  9/ 109 out of 10

  it ships a bibliography

  Blindsight · @kepler22b · 10 Aug 2026

• Circe reviewed by @tinyapartmentbigtbr

  7/ 107 out of 10

  Everyone in my group chat had read this already and kept telling me to hold on until the lions. Liked her a lot, liked the island, found the middle a parade of famous men arriving to be a disappointment, which I don't think was accidental.

  Circe · @tinyapartmentbigtbr · 8 Aug 2026

• Just Kids reviewed by @quietcarriage

  9/ 109 out of 10

  Ninety minutes stopped outside Reading. The book gets two sentences at the end, sorry.

  Just Kids · @quietcarriage · 8 Aug 2026

  22 readers agree with this review