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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton: Ecological thriller with a shocking, cinematic ending

Trespasses by Louise Kennedy: Set during the 1970s Troubles in Ireland, a doomed love story

I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai: A Gen X woman returns to her all-girls boarding school and reflects on a friend's mysterious death and how the #metoo movement has changed her view of her teen years

Tom Lake by Ann Patchett: lovely book set on a cherry farm in Michigan during Covid. The mother tells her adult daughters about her life before marriage

Homestead by Melina Moustakis: set in Alaska as it's becoming a state, this is the story of whether a marriage of convenience can turn into love

The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff: a young woman escapes from a dying early American colony - the story of her navigation of the early American landscape

The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng: Set in Penang 1910s-20s, British Author Somerset Maugham visits friends to spend some time recuperating from illness and hears the woman's story. Hard to sum up but I really loved this one.

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Birnam wood was my most disliked book of the year. Unlikable, unrealistic characters,  with so much stilted weird dialogue. The entire relationship between the two female protagonists was stilted and weird, they spoke in woke feminism rants to one another all day long? It was so annoying! [/quote]

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