A Tiny Bit Marvelous is written from the perspective of four members of the one family. It is quite interesting to read how they each perceive the same events in their life. The best part of this book is the chapters written in the voice of the teenage daughter. They way Dawn French writes these chapters cracks me up. You can really imagine a 16 year old girl standing in front of you saying these things. It's hilarious!
The Slap was given to me by my sister when she was up for dad's birthday and it took me a while to get through it. I found it really interesting and thought provoking. Especially for someone about to have a baby. You most probably know what it's about but if not the story centres around a group of friends. At the start of the book they have a bbq and one of the men slaps a child that is not his. Each chapter is written from the point of view of a different member of the group and shows the different perspectives on the incident. I found myself changing my mind on the incident with every chapter. I got to the end of the book having more questions than answers on what I would do if something like this happened in my life. It's a great book and definitely very thought provoking.
Hopefully August will be a bit more productive for me in the reading department otherwise I am going to struggle to hit my target of 52 books for the year.
The Slap sounds like an interesting read, I think I'll look for this one. It just reminded me of a time my friend's husband slapped my daughter's hand... I was not happy about that, especially since she was a baby not doing anything bad and I didn't even like him, so it extra pissed me off lol
ReplyDeleteThey've just started playing the tv series based on The Slap here. It's quite interesting and definitely hard to know what to think. I keep changing my mind about it too.
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