A Book Written by Someone Under Thirtyįive Rivers Met On A Wooded Plain was written by Barney Norris who was born in 1987. This book not only touches on the history of Salisbury but weaves stories of five fictional characters in a literary, but oh so readable way. Touching without ever being overly sentimental this is one that will linger in my mind for quite some time.

The story concerns the relationship between Ona Vitkus, a Lithuanian immigrant who has lived in the US since she was just four, and a boy Scout with a passion for the Guinness World Records. I give you not one but two numbers in this title: The One in a Million Boy by Monica Wood is a book I denoted ‘quirky’ but I’m so glad I read it. With a mixture of men and women housed in the asylum the author not only writes us a great story, but has accurately researched what life was like from the perspective of inmates and attendants. The Ballroom by Anna Hope tells the tale of life in an asylum in West Riding, the year being 1911. A Book Published This YearĪs a book reviewer I have read lots of books published this year but decided to feature one from my historical fiction selection. With the inevitable loss of friends and family her grief for herself and her generation is palpable The film was released in 2014 to great acclaim. Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain has lots to recommend it although I admit some of the politics towards the end, went over my head, but the tale of a young woman nursing through World War I, having put her hard one academic ambitions on hold, was incredibly poignant. The author creates two young teenage girls using them to reveal the push and pull of their relationship which is ultimately their undoing. The story is based upon a murder case involving two teenaged girls in New Zealand, a case that was also the inspiration for the film Heavenly Creatures. I’ve read three of this author’s books so far, my favourite being Harriet Said. I came late to Beryl Bainbridge so I’m going to count this as a modern classic. Not a comfortable read and I applaud the author for wanting to address racism and using an absorbing tale to do so. With the parents white supremacists who want to blame someone Ruth is charged with murder. Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult clocks in at 512 pages covering the injustice of a Ruth Jefferson, the only African-American nurse on duty when a baby gets into difficulty. As you can imagine this becomes a bit like one of those moving puzzles where one book is suitable for a number of squares… and then I’m left with empty squares which I have to trawl through the 136 books I’ve read and reviewed to see if any book at all will fit! This keeps me amused for many, many hours so I do hope you all enjoy the result.Ĭlick on the book covers to read my reviews A Book With More Than 500 Pages

I purposely don’t treat this like a challenge by finding books to fit the squares throughout the year, oh no! I prefer to see which of my (mostly) favourite books will fit from the set I’ve read. This is one of my favourite posts of the year so there was no question of me repeating this following my relative success in filling in the squares in both 20

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