BCF Bookclub 2025 - Part 4 Completed Reads

[lunababymoonchild]

The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame. 

[Hayley]

On 10/6/2025 at 3:17 PM, lunababymoonchild said:

The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame. 

Are you enjoying it so far? I loved it so much more than I expected to when I finally got around to reading it!

[lunababymoonchild]

42 minutes ago, Hayley said:

Are you enjoying it so far? I loved it so much more than I expected to when I finally got around to reading it!

Absolutely adore it! It will be a re-read and I might even be moved to buy a paper copy (which, of course, I’ll have to read 😉)

[Nataweeee]

just finished Moonflow by Bitter Karella. its pretty out-there but it was a blast to read. had a ton of fun with it.

[lunababymoonchild]

5 minutes ago, Nataweeee said:

just finished Moonflow by Bitter Karella. its pretty out-there but it was a blast to read. had a ton of fun with it.

Looking forward to your review 

[lunababymoonchild]

A Mountain to the North, a Lake to the South, Paths to the West, a River to the East, Laszlo Krasznahorkai. Brilliant!

[Hayley]

The Crow Garden was my choice for this challenge and I have to admit, it was less about nature than the title implies! The crow garden is the name of what is essentially a graveyard in the grounds of a Victorian asylum. There are supernatural elements surrounding it, especially the fact that it seems to always attract a lot of crows. And that is... basically it for nature... 😅. I did enjoy the book. It follows a guy who's trying to find work in asylums, to help people deemed insane and thus prove himself to his deceased father. The asylum he ends up in is awful, but when a very pretty and wealthy woman is bought there by her husband, our main character is convinced he can fix her. She has some shocking revelations about her husband though and it starts to become unclear whether she really is delusional and whether she can actually speak to the dead. I found all of that really gripping. It was a little bit like The Madwoman's Ball, which was a great book. But then the twists and turns begin. Normally, I love a good plot twist, and I like lots of different elements of a story that twist together - but there ended up being so many elements to this story that it started to feel oddly chaotic. It left me with the impression that the author had changed her mind about where the story was going part way through. By the time I actually got to the end, there were still a few things that seemed like plot holes, or at least weren't explained enough to make sense. It's a shame because, otherwise, it was getting really good!