Life After Life by Kate Atkinson

 

 

This was a Costa novel award winner describing chances to relive your life again and again set during the early parts of the twentieth century.

 

Good parts: 

I like the mixture of happy and unhappy endings

Kate Atkinson dots in between events, returning later to fill in the details. 

I enjoyed the descriptions of everyday family life

 

Bad points

The ending was strange

During times it was confusing

 

1Q84 by Haruki Murakami

 

I love love love Haruki Murakami. His books are a mixture of Alice in wonderland crossed with diskworld ... they are very strange!

It describes characters being transported into parallel world 

Good points

Even if you read the end before you should (shhh) you have no idea how the book will get there

Everything is meticulous described... there are no odd ends

The construction of the chapters is very clever - one character write one, the other the next and then back to the first - very clever

Bad points

It is long

I finished it....