Krystyna Hollis

About dementia or some kind of disturbance of the mind. Piranesi is a patient and the Other is a psychiatrist….have only just started the book so may change my mind!

I stayed awake reading this as couldn’t put it down! Very well written. One of my favourite Reacher books

One of my favourite books. This is such a portrait of people l have worked with. Almost unbearably unawakened and having such tiny lives. They have an enviable ability to make their lives meaningful in small ways, it comforts me ..crazy l know.

Thanks K J Rowling for giving me 5 nights of lack of sleep ( l read at night!). Ink Black Heart was superb….. what a brain you have! Unputdownable! Clever clever lady…….

We don’t know much about Shakespeare’s wife but this book was too ‘wordy’.....l kept wishing there was a speed up in the overlong airy fairyness of it! In those days the ‘cunning woman’ Agnes/Anne would have been burned as a witch! I don’t need to know more of the ‘nothing known’ about a virtually unrecorded woman in a book filled with irritatingly long passages! I read historical biographies! Anne Hathaway was probably a practical country wife who was appreciated by Shakespeare on his visits home as a contrast to the frenetic life of the city. She reared his children and he chose to spend his retirement with her. I didn’t appreciate the unnecessary description of everything that was already mentioned in their day to day home and surroundings ad infinitum. Boring people, boring book. An insult to Anne Hathoway’s memory!

I had to stop reading.....,it’s frustrating dreariness and half finished sentences made me feel impatient and bored!