Secret Little Book Club

Posts Tagged ‘family

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

Posted by: flairandsquare on: January 10, 2009

I love holidays…. I’ve read another book! It took me a while to get into this deeply sad, sometimes funny but mostly tragic book. The story is narrated by a nine year old boy, Oskar Schell. Oskar has his own business card “amateur inventor, jewelry designer, astrophysicist, tambourine player and pacifist” and a metal detector, [...]

The After Life

Posted by: desosborn on: November 30, 2008

This autobiography by Kathleen Stewart is confrontational and worrying. In my view, Kathleen’s a very creative and poetic writer  – I’d be keen to read more from her but something a bit lighter and brighter I think – this book is dark…   This is a true insight into depression, suicide and dysfunctional family love in modern-day [...]


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