Tag Archives: 2016 – The Year in Books

(2016) The Year in Books – My Brilliant Friend

Posted on March 10, 2017 by Nick Keirle

The first of Ferrante’s four-part Neapolitan Novels series, My Brilliant Friend is a perceptive, emotionally honest depiction of childhood and adolescence, as well as the closeness and fraught distance of long-term friendship. More specifically, the childhood and adolescence and long-term … Continue reading →

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(2016) The Year in Books – Things Fall Apart

Posted on February 14, 2017 by Nick Keirle

Chinua Achebe – Things Fall Apart Things Fall Apart centres around Umuofia – an Igbo village in Nigeria, towards the end of the 19th century, as they deal with the European colonisers newly arrived to the region. Split into sections, it first acclimatises readers to … Continue reading →

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(2016) The Year in Books – Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster

Posted on February 7, 2017 by Nick Keirle

[This is Part One of my review of my favourite books I read in 2016 and it’s been another year and oh my god I haven’t written anything on this blog in all of 2016 what an absolute joke. As always … Continue reading →

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