2019: #18 – Long Time Coming (Robert Goddard)

This was my first experience with Goddard. The story’s premise is interesting — Stephen Swan unexpectedly finds out that the uncle he thought was dead, Eldritch, has instead been in an Irish prison for the last 40 years. Except no one, including Eldritch, will tell him why. Consumed by his curiosity and concerned for his mother’s safety, Stephen takes it upon himself to keep tabs

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2019: #1 – All the Light We Cannot See (Anthony Doerr)

I enjoyed this book, though I found it very slow. What I particularly liked was that it explored World War II from a couple of perspectives that I haven’t read before, despite having read a *lot* of World War II novels.  The first main perspective is that of Marie-Laure, a young French girl who goes blind before the war and then must flee Paris with

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