dumbreads finished reading The Prison Book Club by Ann Walmsley
The Prison Book Club by Ann Walmsley
A daring journalist goes behind bars to explore the redemptive power of books with bikers, bank robbers, and gunmen.
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A daring journalist goes behind bars to explore the redemptive power of books with bikers, bank robbers, and gunmen.
An …
According to The Waiter, eighty percent of customers are nice people just looking for something to eat. The remaining twenty …
According to The Waiter, eighty percent of customers are nice people just looking for something to eat. The remaining twenty …
Victoria is unraveling. Her best friend is missing, and she's the only one who seems to care: there are clues …
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I liked the first two chapters, the author is good as setting the scene, I’ll give her that. I don’t get why it’s classified as a « thriller » because the disapearance happends quite early in the book and there is no evolution of the case outside the main character’s mind. At some point the character breaks the fourth wall for no reason, and goes into all sorts of rambling. In the end it’s a « it was all in her head, she is schizophrenic » and as much as I could see it coming it was such a let down…
Victoria is unraveling. Her best friend is missing, and she's the only one who seems to care: there are clues …
This was quite hard to follow. It’s a collection of short stories but all the chatacters intertwine, and I sometimes couldn’t figure out who was narrating. Yet I still finished it in a week so I guess it’s not all bad
A call for a radical transformation in the face of widespread crisis.
The Nation on No Map examines state power, …