KeithJun 8
Look What You Made Me Do by John Lancaster. It's one achievement I guess was to make me feel brief sympathy for two characters that deserved none. It's clever I guess. Very inside North London/Oxford middle classes who will love it. You have to suspend belief to believe it. I couldn't. #bookstodon @bookstodon #KeefsReads
KeithMay 29
After a long gap where the third book was, erm, lost in translation, I finished the Lars sister bells trilogy with The Night of the Scourge. You should read them all. There's a lot of pages covering 400 years, but the way he brings it full circle is so well done. #keefsreads @bookstodon #bookstodon
KeithMay 15
Do you like novels about rich screwed-up American families? Are you frustrated that there are not enough rich screwed-up lesbians represented in those stories. Well Like Family by Erin White is for you. I enjoyed it a lot once I got my head around how all the entwined lives fitted together. #bookstodon @bookstodon #KeefsReads
KeithMay 4
Read The Predicament by William Boyd, the second installment of his spy series of books. All a bit ridiculous and far-fetched but an easy and entertaining read. @bookstodon #bookstodon #KeefsReads
KeithMar 28
Just read Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's novel Dream Count. Stories of the relationships between women and their support for one another. I'm afraid men don't come out of this looking good, and that's fair enough. @bookstodon #Bookstodon #KeefsReads
KeithMar 10
The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster. I really enjoyed Baumgartner, which in retrospect was a love letter to his wife before he died in 2023. These books are sort of detective novels. But it's the descent into madness that runs through them. Writing that is both really clever and very readable. @bookstodon #bookstodon #KeefsReads
Show threadKeithJul 11, 2025

Just read Gabriel's Moon by William Boyd. Load of old cobblers. Easy reading cobblers. But cobblers. #LiteraryCriticism #KeefsReads

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KeithJun 23, 2025
My long thread of books I've read got broken. Possibly through inactivity. Anyway, I read Trust by Herman Diaz. Or possibly reread. All a little familiar. Fours books within a book. What's it about? Not sure. Made me think about unreliable narrators and ownership of the truth. @bookstodon #bookstodon #KeefsReads
Show threadKeithMay 12, 2024
I read The Nix by Nathan Hill. And after a few pages I realised I'd already read it and forgotten about it. Doh! But perhaps the moment to pick it up was well timed. It centres on student protests in Chicago in 1968. It feels like we've learnt precisely nothing along the way. If you like John Irving's work you'll get along with this. #keefsreads @bookstodon
Show threadKeithApr 4, 2024
Am I the last person on earth to read The Bee Sting by Paul Murray? A proper book. Grabs you, shakes you up, gives you a bit of a kicking, drops you in a heap. #bookstodon.#keefsreads @bookstodon