Skellig by David Almond (Amazon, $6.29)

Nick Hornby recommended this one. He’s even got a blurb on the cover… “One of the best novels publishedin the last decade… A beautifully simple and bottomlessly complicated story.”

To date, Nick Hornby has never steered me wrong. I have no memory of not enjoying one of his recs.

Skellig was… okay. It didn’t have a significant impact on me one way or another.

Granted, it’s a young adult novel, but I’ve been reading a number of those recently with great success, so I don’t see that as a major excuse.

Just… okay.

In brief, a boy whose baby sister is in the hospital finds a broken down humanish creature in a shed. There are some heartstrings pulled.

Books Read: 40
Week Number: 38
Books/Week: 1.05