The cover of an ebook. Buckeye by Patrick Ryan. Three horizontal panels shows scenes drawn from American neighbourhoods.

Feels like Patrick Ryan has written Anne Patchett's book. In fact she's on the front cover bigging it up. You know the drill: intertwined stories of honest but imperfect American families over generations. Great read. Highly recommended. @bookstodon #bookstodon #KeefsReads

The cover of the e book. Artwork looks like a tear to me

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

Photo of the ebook. Dominated by text. A small dark drawing of a figure seen through an apartment block window.

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 […]

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Photo of ebook on my Kobo. A man in the shadows looks towards a well dressed woman by a fancy car.

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

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Photo of the ebook. A woman from the 1930s, back to us, looks into a mirror.

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 who […]

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