Art Garfunkel famously keeps track of the books he has read since 1968. As of writing this, the count is 1327 (he does not add a review). I thought I could do something similar but I am adding short reviews of books as I read them, and I rake my brain over what I read over the last decades. This is, evidently, a work-in-progress: there are 649 reviews so far. Titles marked with a * are particular favorites.
Andrew O’Hagan: Caledonian Road
A Dickensian (they say) novel about the state of Blighty in the throes of Brexit and Russian criminals and Tory and Labour peers being on the take. And that is only the beginning of it all. No one goes free: every single character has flaws, big or small (well, maybe not Milo’s mother). A dark and dreary picture, and chillingly real.