BUDDY READ WITH NAT 16.
NAT'S REVIEW "Your name is Robert Penfold. Age 31. The apartment you’re standing in is your home..." Imagine standing in front of a door...
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Neale Lucas
- Mar 27, 2021
- 9 min
BUDDY READ WITH NAT 15.
NAT'S REVIEW The opening scene of this book depicts a furtive coupling in the chapel closet at a funeral. It’s tawdry and it’s...
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Neale Lucas
- Feb 5, 2021
- 7 min
BUDDY READ WITH NAT 14.
"Fled", Meg Keneally's debut solo novel was a buddy read with Nat as well, and we both loved it. This is her latest novel and is similar...
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Neale Lucas
- Oct 26, 2020
- 6 min
BUDDY READ WITH NAT 13.
I cannot believe that I have made it this far in life without having read any of Nick Hornby's books. So firstly a big thank you to Nat...
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Neale Lucas
- Aug 26, 2020
- 8 min
BUDDY READ WITH NAT 12.
NAT'S REVIEW " 'I hear knocking. Don't you?' 'Knocking? What's knocking?' 'Opportunity.' ” You'll smell the patchouli and the rain. I...
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Neale Lucas
- Jun 22, 2020
- 7 min
BUDDY READ WITH NAT 11.
NAT'S REVIEW. ”Time is a trickster; being nothing, it promises everything.” This book is mellow. It took me ages to pinpoint that this is...
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Neale Lucas
- Apr 13, 2020
- 7 min
BUDDY READ WITH NAT 10.
NAT'S REVIEW "There's no such thing as a perfect piece of writing. Just as there's no such thing as perfect despair." So begins the...
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Neale Lucas
- Mar 4, 2020
- 5 min
BUDDY READ WITH NAT 9.
NAT'S REVIEW "We're on our own in life and fate will always deal exactly the cards it wishes, no matter the will or love of any human...
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Neale Lucas
- Feb 19, 2020
- 7 min
BUDDY READ WITH NAT 8.
NAT'S REVIEW ”People went on about death bringing friends together, but it wasn’t true…” Reading this book made me think that the loss...
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Neale Lucas
- Nov 4, 2019
- 4 min
BUDDY READ WITH NAT 7.
NAT'S REVIEW "While outside the cool night air is scented with caramel and smoke, this tent is warm and smells of incense and roses and...
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Neale Lucas
- Sep 2, 2019
- 6 min
BUDDY READ WITH NAT 6.
NAT'S REVIEW To the women of Istanbul, and the city of Istanbul, which is, and has always been, a she-city" I love that this is Elif...
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Neale Lucas
- Jul 16, 2019
- 5 min
BUDDY READ WITH NAT 5.
This was Nat's turn to pick and our first radical change of genre. I must admit that I do like a good romance as much as anybody and I...
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Neale Lucas
- Jul 6, 2019
- 4 min
BUDDY READS WITH NAT 4.
We have our first 10! We both awarded FLED by Meg Keneally 5 stars. A sensational debut. NAT'S REVIEW ” ‘ I said I would tell you our...
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Neale Lucas
- Jun 8, 2019
- 4 min
BUDDY READS WITH NAT 3.
NAT'S REVIEW "It's a strange dichotomy, so it is; feeling and knowing; the feeling feels truer that the know of its falseness." It's hard...
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Neale Lucas
- May 22, 2019
- 4 min
BUDDY READ WITH NAT 2.
Nat's Review. When a book opens with the words "Mad as a meat-axe", you know you'll be in for an interesting ride. And a bumpy one. The...
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Neale Lucas
- May 12, 2019
- 3 min
BUDDY READ WITH NAT 1.
Nat's Review. "I have a very full life online." Welcome back Ben Elton, it's been too long! Ben's latest offering opens with D.I Mick...
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