The Alibi Book Club #40 {Some Fab New Books}

Yep.

I bought even more books.

I'm trying to take a break after this post to re-read all the books I already do have!

ANYWAY.

This little post is about all the ones I've enjoyed (maybe also are a bit meh), and am about to read. And I hope as always, this will give you inspiration for what you want to read soon...

001: jing-jing lee - how we disappeared:
This is the one book I haven't read yet, but is next on my list to read. It's a bit of a deeper theme than ones I've read previously, but I'm looking forward to reading it...

"Singapore, 1942. As Japanese troops sweep down Malaysia and into Singapore, a village is ransacked. Only three survivors remain, one of them a tiny child.

In a neighbouring village, seventeen-year-old Wang Di is bundled into the back of a troop carrier and shipped off to a Japanese military brothel. In the year 2000, her mind is still haunted by her experiences there, but she has long been silent about her memories of that time. It takes twelve-year-old Kevin, and the mumbled confession he overhears from his ailing grandmother, to set in motion a journey into the unknown to discover the truth."

002: candice carty-williams - queenie:
I absolutely LOVED this one! So witty, funny and highlights on real issues that are in today's society. You'll for sure fall in love with Queenie and her story...

"Fabulous but flawed, defiant but vulnerable, Queenie Jenkins is one of the great fictional creations of the twenty-first century, and her story is, by turns, hilariously funny, dramatic and movingly tender.

Caught between the Jamaican British family who don’t seem to understand her, a job that’s not all it promised and a man she just can’t get over, Queenie’s life seems to be steadily spiralling out of control. Desperately trying to navigate her way through a hot mess of shifting cultures and toxic relationships and emerge with a shred of dignity, her missteps and misadventures will provoke howls of laughter and tears of pity – frequently on the same page."

003: jeanette winterson - frankissstein:
This was a bit meh... The plot was promising, but all over the place. And I didn't really love the whole 'future' vibe. My favourite part for sure was the part with actual Mary Shelley. That was it.

"In Brexit Britain, a young transgender doctor called Ry is falling in love - against their better judgement - with Victor Stein, a celebrated professor leading the public debate around AI. Meanwhile, Ron Lord, just divorced and living with Mum again, is set to make his fortune launching a new generation of sex dolls for lonely men everywhere.

Across the Atlantic, in Phoenix, Arizona, a cryogenics facility houses dozens of bodies of men and women who are medically and legally dead... but waiting to return to life. But the scene is set in 1816, when nineteen-year-old Mary Shelley writes a story about creating a non-biological life-form. 'Beware, for I am fearless and therefore powerful.'"

004: nina stibbe - reasons to be cheerful:
I LOOOOOVED this. So funny and a real treat for a book set in the 1970's. No one sets books in this time anymore. I raced through this and loved it. I'll definitely pick it up again...

"So begins a young woman's journey to adulthood. Lizzie Vogel leaves her alcoholic, novel-writing mother and heads for Leicester to work for a racist, barely competent dentist obsessed with joining the freemasons.

Soon Lizzie is heading reluctantly, if at top speed, into the murky depths of adult life: where her driving instructor becomes her best friend; her first boyfriend prefers birdwatching to sex and where independence for a teenage girl might just be another word for loneliness."