The Windermere Witness: 1 (The Lake District Mysteries) by Rebecca Tope

  

A disappointing easy read which didn't seem to quite fit together and have too many main characters which were unnecessary.

Reading in the Brain: The New Science of How We Read by Stanislas Dehaene

         

 This is a exhaustive exploration of how the human brain reads.
Stanislas Dehaene takes his specialized subject (cognitive neuroscience)  and is able to render accessible what might otherwise be difficult. 

J: A Novel Howard Jacobson

To Rise Again at a Decent Hour by Joshua Ferris

  

I didn't enjoy this novel. 
I thought it would be funny but it wasn't.  Amusing, yes. Thought-provoking, sure. Funny no!
It combines a mishmash of topics: baseball, Judaism, and dentistry and they never quite add up to a cohesive whole.
I struggled at times with the multi-page paragraphs and the general ceaselessness of switching between inner monologues and first person.

How to be both Ali Smith

The Bone Clocks David Mitchell

 

I loved this book - so clever. It is made of composed of six parts, each dealing with different ages of Holly Sykes. It feels like an epic spanning across multiple narrators, continents and genres of writing styles.

The Lives of Others Neel Mukherjee