by Paul Auster
The musings of a man in his early seventies who lost his wife ten years before in an accident.
He is still dealing with grief and is having to handle getting older and falling down stairs and forgetting things.
I imagine the book would only resonate with people over sixty but I enjoyed it with its at times rambling nature. I also wish somebody would write Sy Baumgartner's book, Mysteries of the Wheel! 8/10
by Georges Simenon
Maigret gets approached by an old prostitute when her safe breaking husband disappears after finding a dead body in a house he was burgling.
A long investigation takes place involving the dentist and his mother who live in the house. A good story but we never found out if the safebreaker came back to Paris! 8/10
by Colin Walsh
A fast moving mystery about an old case of a girl who disappeared in Ireland 15 years ago, but some bones have been found just as some of her old friends are returning to the home town. Is it Kala? If it is what happened all those years ago. Good story 7/10
by Robin Ince
Subtitled An Obsessive's tour of the Bookshops of Britain, this is a diary of that tour which did what it said on the can. It is tiring just to read but what a trip that must have been. It leaves you with a list of shops you want to visit and another list of books you want to buy.
A good book to read when you don't want to be concentrating too much and are happy to let the references you don't get float off into the ether 7/10
by George Simenon
One of Maigret's officers is shot and wounded on a stake-out. As Mme Maigret is away, Maigret stays in a small boarding house on the street where the shooting took place and as ever the plot is more complicated than first appears. 8/10
by Edouard Louis
A bleak French tale of growing up poor and gay in a small northern manufacturing town. It was a tough read and drew comparisons with Shuggie Bain-a book I preferred. 6/10
