Book Count (since 1 January 2012)

Book Count (since 1 January 2014): 30

Monday 11 July 2011

Buddha Da by Anne Donovan

A painter and decorator based in Glasgow finds Buddishm. The whole book is written phonetically in Scottish dialect which I found irritating and unnecessary because it makes it a harder read than the plot really deserves. It's like when you spend ages peeling and getting all the white stuff off an orange only to find it's slightly bitter. And it is only slightly bitter so you persevere but feel a bit short changed. The point being, that this book is quite good - the plot is fairly pacy and the characters are interesting (if staggeringly unrealistic) but the way it is written makes it a bad choice for a beach read which is really the category it belongs in. Disappointing.

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