Hi Alison, I didn't enjoy Swimming Home by Deborah Levy either, but I finished it because I had bought it. I find with the Man Booker books that some years I like most of them and other years I can't get along with hardly any. It must be to do with the different judges. I still look forward to the short list every year though. Hope you have some more inspirational books next month, sometimes reading goes like that. Shell. -------------------------------------------------- From: "CJ & AA MAY" <chrisalis.may@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, June 03, 2013 9:07 AM To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [ebooktalk] Re: Books I read in May. > The books I read in May were: > > > > Cat and Mouse by James Patterson; > > > > The Cashmere Shawl by Rosie Thomas; > > > > The Lighthouse by Alison Moore; (Man Booker Runner-up) > > > > The killing hour by Lisa Gardner; > > > > Swimming Home by Deborah Levy; (Man Booker Runner-up) > > > > Resurrection men by Ian Rankin; > > > > The Husband by Dean Kootz; > > > > A Question of Guilt by Frances Biffield; > > > > The Warriors Princess by Barbara Erskine; > > > > For me none of these books were particularly outstanding and I gave up on > the two Man Booker Runner-ups. The Cashmere Shawl proved much better than > its synopsis suggested, however, and gave an insight into life in Cashmere > with some good descriptive narrative. > > Alison > > > >