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I’m having a poor run with my book choices

The Librarianist – Patrick Dewitt [The life of a gentle, 71-year-old man told in a non-linear timeline. Some good bits but a tiresome last 100 pages]
The Small Black Room – Nigel Balchin [An old-fashioned, 1941 war novel – what was I thinking! I’m on a bad run]
Falling Man – Don Delillo [Another poor choice! Couldn’t get into it]
The Labyrinth Makers – Anthony Price [Old fashioned spy novel – what was I thinking! Didn’t get far]
A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself – Peter Ho Davies [Parenthood. Forty pages in I decided it was not for me]
I Am Sovereign – Nicola Barker [No idea what was going on. Didn’t get very far]
The Digger’s Game – George V. Higgins [Dialogue-heavy, I found the American slang just about incomprehensible. Not my c of t]

8 books found at Fara Books, Teddington

Not getting out much due to a stinker of a cold meant I ran out of books. An e-book downloaded from the library and a re-read from the shelves kept me going but some serious shopping was required. Fara Books in Teddington is one of my favourite charity bookshops and three-quarters of an hour was sufficient to find 8 promising reads.

How’s the weight going, Mike?