
A year of Lighthouse reading : Bookseller Favourites
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A year of Lighthouse reading : Bookseller Favourites
Here are the Lighthouse family's favourite reads of the 2021 - shared through posts and videos at Lighthouse online! Get to know the team through our eclectic tastes, and have a guess which books below inspired the following responses:
'It is bizarre, it is gross and brilliant. The scope and the imagination are just infectious.' - Lindsay's review video HERE
"She'll demand you do better, but she'll give you all the encouragement you need to begin, without a smidge of blame or shame." - Peach's written reviews HERE
“To be broken hearted does not make you broken; It is part of our humanity. Our capacity to care, to continue to care, is revolutionary.” - Mairis' reviews HERE
'You wonderful caterpillars' - Andrew's review video HERE
"It's about djinn, political intrigue, inequality and sectarianism, and building a better world." - Noor's written reviews HERE
'I read the first page, then first chapter, and couldn’t stop.' - Rachel's written reviews HERE
'It made me think of what's contained in a language and what disappears when a language disappears.' - Anita's review video HERE
"The women in this book just get to have pleasure. They're not punished for wanting pleasure." - Christina's review video HERE
"It's devastatingly good on the reality of being a Brown, mixed girl (oh how I love those passages!), and what radical care can look like in environmental, political and bodily collapse - all of which are of course closely entangled." - Jess' written reviews HERE