I've been a bit remiss lately about pointing you to my recent reviews in Shiny. Here are a couple that have appeared in the last few weeks.
Min Kym's Gone is subtitled A Girl, a Violin, A Life Unstrung. Maybe you have heard of Min Kym, a supremely talented violinist of Korean extraction, recognised as a child prodigy by the time she was seven. Maybe you even read about the great tragedy of her life, the loss of her precious Stradivarius violin when it was stolen from her in a café at Euston Station. Or maybe she, and her story, are new to you. Either way, you really should read this book, in which Min tells her amazing story in her own beautifully chosen words.
Read the whole review here.
My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
This is a very short novel – only just over two hundred pages. But it’s a little jewel of a book, not only for the wonderfully compressed truths about the way people communicate with others but also for the great beauty of Strout’s simple, spare, immensely telling prose. I loved every single second of it.
That's what I said about it in my review. Certainly this was one of the best novels I read in 2016, and it's now out in paperback.
Read the whole review here.
