I’m Thinking of Ending Things, by Iain Reid
. Billed as a “literary thriller” I thought this might be a good read after some more mundane books. But I was wrong. The novel was interesting for awhile, but then it started to get gratuitously creepy, and by the end I felt like I was in a bad version of Shutter Island (a movie which actually I have only seen previews and snippets of, for good reason). So I am sure there i an audience for novels like this, but not me.
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Friends of African Village Libraries (I post regularly here)- Résumé des activités de l’animateur de ABVBF à la bibliothèque de Dimikuy
- Interview d’une lectrice de la bibliothèque de Dimikuy
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- Photos from Tuy province libraries in Burkina Faso from the past month
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- Organisation d’une séance de dessin à la bibliothèque de Koumbia
- Une visite de l’animateur de ABVBF à la bibliothèque communautaire de Koho
- Some recent photos from the mobile library in Hounde, Burkina Faso
- Remise du deuxième prix du meilleur gérant des bibliothèques de la zone du Tuy