Reading year 2014: Kate Atkinson’s Life After Life is our favorite of the year so far
Life After Life trade paperback, Php755 at National Bookstores. Buy it even if you have to sell blood.
We would’ve finished sooner, but we kept stopping to give her a standing ovation. Our favorite book of the year so far.
The cover art suggests some reincarnation romance. Do not be fooled.
Full review later in the week. Listen to the first chapter while we run to the bookstore and get every Kate Atkinson book we can find. (Book moratorium suspended for this.)
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February 4th, 2014 at 08:14
Behind the Scenes at the Museum was the second book that I read for the year. I enjoyed it a lot, very funny book. I didn’t buy her other books that I saw when I was in Iloilo because they were part of a series (I didn’t find the first book). I still regret not buying them. At ang mura pa kasi sa Booksale ko nakita.
February 4th, 2014 at 08:18
I love that book!
February 4th, 2014 at 11:03
“… even if you have to sell blood” – pressure pressure! I’ve been resisting it because of my reading backlog. And I do like the cover. Aargh pressure!
Her Case Histories, one of my still unread, I probably “attracted” by wanting it so much! (Booksale, Cubao) I read somewhere that Stephen King said it was perfect, and that he read it twice just to see how she’d done it.
February 4th, 2014 at 16:23
I know if a book is good if it makes me audibly gasp. Ursula-like, it made me want to read it again the moment I’ve finished. But I’ve also just completed “The Book Thief” a few days before, so I had to stop myself. Needless to say, it was the most emotionally draining (cathartic?) one week of my life. :-)
February 4th, 2014 at 21:48
To hell with book moratoriums (moratoria?)! We are recidivists!
February 5th, 2014 at 22:28
Yay, a (budding?) Kate Atkinson fan! I highly recommend Case Histories, the first and, in my opinion, the best in her Jackson Brodie series; I’ve seen a couple of copies at Fully Booked BGC. It has a crime mystery setting but in Atkinson’s wonderful hands, the story elevates the genre it’s usually boxed in. I think the only work of hers I haven’t read yet are Human Croquet and Not The End Of The World.