Currently reading
The Wisdom of No Escape: And the Path of Loving-Kindness
River of Smoke: A Novel
Alif the Unseen
Half of a Yellow Sun
Taoist Qigong for Health and Vitality: A Complete Program of Movement, Meditation, and Healing Sounds
Sea of Poppies
AyurVeda: The Science of Self-Healing
Medicine Buddha Teachings
Tibetan Book of Living and Dying: The Spiritual Classic and International Bestseller
The Fault in Our Stars
When God Was a Rabbit
Sarah Winman is a voice to watch. This was a very good tale of things/people/experiences lost & found. It was an ambitious first novel and while mostly successful I found the main framing device, a before and after situation that Elly, the voice of the story, tells you will happen from the first line of the novel to be quite distracting and really lead to this reading as two novellas rather than a complete text.This speaks quite highly of the characters Winman creates as I wanted to know far more about their lives in the missing gap, as far too many huge developments are just hinted at, or even worse, just inferred.This shows that she has the chops to delve into large scoped stories in the future and I await what she does next. But mostly I want to know these characters she creates and meet them for tea every few months and am quite sad they are fictional and likely are never to be heard from at all.
