July 2024
The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley. The government has a time travel machine, so they grab a WW1 solider from the Battle of the Somme, an aristocrat from revolutionary France and an Arctic Explorer on a doomed exploration. This is the weirdest novel I have ever loved and I fully stand behind that! Its part fantasy, part mystery, some romance, even social commentary.
Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi just leaves you with all the feels and is a joy to read. It’s a series of short stories with patrons of this coffee shop being able to travel back in time as long as they are back before their coffee gets cold.
I gave a copy of The Midnight Library by Matt Haig to my niece Rose to read and she thought it was depressing and sad, whereas I honestly found it uplifting and hopeful%hellip; so it’s one where there is no middle ground. The midnight library is where you go to when you die, where you can pick any book off the shelf and live all those different lives that you didn’t get to in life sounds good, go reserve it at the library.
Shower Land: Break the Curse. This book is fun, educational and as zany as you’d expect from Nat Amore and just the cutest premise; where hopping in the shower might get you sent to another time and place.
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton. Our main character in this thriller has 8 days to solve a murder and wakes every day in a different body with different perspective and that’s all I’m going to say! So twisty, so clever, so weird!!!