It's the audiobooks that have kept me sane the last couple of weeks!
The Barefoot Summer by Carolyn Brown
This one is hard to comment on, because I really liked some aspects of it. I loved the premise - a woman finds out at her husband's funeral that he has two other wives, one daughter, and another kid on the way. The three women go to a cabin owned by their dead husband, intent on waiting each other out and claiming the place. I thought the book was going to be a bit more of a mystery who-dun-it, and I guess it was, but the southern / Texas romance aspect kind of took over, and whilst there's nothing wrong with that, it just wasn't what I was expecting.
Depends What You Mean By Extremist by John Safran
I'm a huge John Safran fan. I've watched all his shows (and re-watch John Safran vs God on a yearly basis), loved his podcast, and really enjoyed his last book. I bought a paperback copy of Depends What You Mean By Extremist, but as soon as I saw he read the audiobook, I knew that I needed to listen to it. I mean, when I read the last one, I heard his voice reading it in my head, so same same, but this time I could be driving / walking / doing other crap while I listened.
This didn't disappoint. John looks at what an 'extremist' actually is, and his journey into the world of right-wing Australia was frightening and eye opening.
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