To be read, eventually, delighted to loan or bookring in the meantime :)

RELEASE NOTES:

Just had this on loan from Detailista, hence the reserved status. Meantime, on to the TBR shelf with it...

Now part of my Man Booker Prize Winners Reading Project.

In Amsterdam McEwan demonstrates his usual incomporable style and the plot keeps the pages turning. I feel, though, that this book could have been so much more and certainly doesn't compare with other books of his that I have read. In particular I found the ending entirely unconvincing both in terms of the actions of the two main protagonists and also in what is supposedly possible in Amsterdam. Frankly, I'm surprised this won the Booker in 1998. Irrespective of this, I'd like to thank Detailista for lending me this. I'll get it in the post in the next day or two.

RELEASE NOTES:

Picked up at the Uncon in Birmingham yesterday.

Ditto to UrbanSpaceman's comments - the ending was just too far-fetched and the book wasn't a patch on Atonement, which is the only other McEwan novel I have read. Still, it was a fast-moving and enjoyable read and I'm definitely going to look out for more of his work.

6 October 2006
To be taken to the Cambridge meet up tomorrow.

Picked up from table whilst meeting Brum lot. Have wanted to read for a while. You never know, I might get round to it one day!

RELEASE NOTES:

I will be releasing this along with some other books durin my lunch break. I will release them around Helmore building and the library. Happy hunting!