Recently finished #ThePowerOfTheDog #ThomasSavage Four out of four stars. Would recommend. Would read again. "Phil always did the castrating; first he sliced off the cup of the scrotum and tossed it aside; next he forced down first one and then the other testicle, slit the rainbow membrane that enclosed it, tore it out, and tossed it into the fire where the branding irons glowed." In progress: #Exteriors #AnnieErnaux

Recently finished #Vera #ElizabethVonArnim Three out of four stars. Would recommend. Would read again. "When the doctor had gone, and the two women from the village he had been waiting for were upstairs shut in with her dead father, Lucy went out into the garden and stood leaning on the gate staring at the sea." In progress: #ThePowerOfTheDog #ThomasSavage