Ruth

Reviews

• The Ocean at the End of the Lane reviewed by @tinyapartmentbigtbr

  8/ 108 out of 10

  Short enough that even I finished it.

  The Ocean at the End of the Lane

• Dune reviewed by @tinyapartmentbigtbr

  7/ 107 out of 10

  Look, I got there in the end (two attempts, one glossary) and the sandworms are worth it.

  Dune

• Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell reviewed by @tinyapartmentbigtbr

  8/ 108 out of 10

  Two winters. Finally finished.

  Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell

• 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

• The Name of the Wind reviewed by @tinyapartmentbigtbr

  6/ 106 out of 10

  Better in the university bits.

  The Name of the Wind

• The Night Circus reviewed by @tinyapartmentbigtbr

  6/ 106 out of 10

  All icing, no cake. I ate it anyway.

  The Night Circus

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• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy reviewed by @tinyapartmentbigtbr

  8/ 108 out of 10

  (Third copy. I keep lending them out and they never come back.) Still funny in the bath, still the one I give to non-readers.

  The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

• The Fifth Season reviewed by @tinyapartmentbigtbr

  9/ 109 out of 10

  No idea how the second-person thing works as well as it does, and I've stopped asking. Tore through it, bought the next two immediately, have not opened either of them (they're in the tower by the door).

  The Fifth Season

• Never Let Me Go reviewed by @tinyapartmentbigtbr

  8/ 108 out of 10

  My sister told me the entire thing at a wedding in 2019, so I went in already knowing, and it still got me on the final page. Sorry to her and sorry to Ishiguro, she was right about all of it.

  Never Let Me Go

• Klara and the Sun reviewed by @tinyapartmentbigtbr

  6/ 106 out of 10

  Buying this in hardback was optimistic of me. Klara herself is lovely and sad and I liked watching her work things out, but the ending left me flat, and I suspect what I wanted was Never Let Me Go again, which isn't fair on it.

  Klara and the Sun

• The Left Hand of Darkness reviewed by @tinyapartmentbigtbr

  8/ 108 out of 10

  Read the ice chapters in one go.

  The Left Hand of Darkness

• Piranesi reviewed by @tinyapartmentbigtbr

  10/ 1010 out of 10

  There's a house in my head now and I'm not leaving it.

  Piranesi

• Six of Crows reviewed by @tinyapartmentbigtbr

  8/ 108 out of 10

  Kaz Brekker has ruined heist films for me. Six terrible children, one impossible job, and I read the last stretch standing up in the kitchen because sitting down didn't feel serious enough.

  Six of Crows

• Children of Time reviewed by @tinyapartmentbigtbr

  7/ 107 out of 10

  It's spiders! Nobody warned me it was spiders! I've come round to the spiders (I love them now, obviously) but the human chapters dragged and I definitely skimmed one.

  Children of Time

• Oathbringer reviewed by @tinyapartmentbigtbr

  8/ 108 out of 10

  Took me eleven weeks and I'm not sorry.

  Oathbringer

• Uprooted reviewed by @tinyapartmentbigtbr

  7/ 107 out of 10

  In the forest chapters I was completely happy; everywhere else I kept checking how many pages were left.

  Uprooted

• The Way of Kings reviewed by @tinyapartmentbigtbr

  9/ 109 out of 10

  Doorstop. Adored it. Wrists ruined.

  The Way of Kings

• The Secret History reviewed by @tinyapartmentbigtbr

  8/ 108 out of 10

  Would I have joined the Greek class? Instantly. Shamefully. Yes.

  The Secret History

• The Bear and the Nightingale reviewed by @tinyapartmentbigtbr

  8/ 108 out of 10

  The inscription inside says: "To Dad, who won't read this. Love E." He didn't. Ninety pence.

  The Bear and the Nightingale

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• Station Eleven reviewed by @tinyapartmentbigtbr

  9/ 109 out of 10

  Weirdly cosy for a book about everyone dying.

  Station Eleven