Reviews of Books
Posted in Fiction - Light, Recommended on Jan 27th, 2009
I bought this book because of the cover.
It’s hilarious – very between the wars. For modern readers it’s a bit like Bridget Jones’ s Diary. In fact I wouldn’t be surprised if Helen Fielding was inspired by this (and Pride and Prejudice of course).
Here’s the blurb …
Behind this rather prim title lies the hilarious [...]
Posted in Fiction - Light, Recommended on Jan 26th, 2009
I won this book at a Quiz night. It’s an uncorrected proof so I have no idea where it came from or who donated it. It has been sitting on my ‘To Be Read’ shelve for quite a while, but I finally decided to give it a go.
I liked it.
Here is the stuff on the [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous on Jan 25th, 2009
I bought this book for my Dad for Christmas – imagine my surprise when he had already read it! I decided to keep it and read it myself.
I liked it. I thought the quality of the writing was a bit poor, but it was definitely a compelling page turning read (more like a screenplay than [...]
Posted in Fiction - Light, Recommended on Jan 19th, 2009
This was my ‘beach’ read. It’s racy and pacy. Read it because it’s hilarious (and it will only take a few hours – really!).
Here’s a link
http://www.evanovich.com/plum_spookyjacket.html
Posted in Serious on Jan 19th, 2009
I got this book out of the library – very unusual, but I mean to do it more often.
It’s a story about loss and grief, mothers and daughters and when the hole left by the dead can’t be filled by the living.
Here’s the back …
On the fourteenth of February 1962, in the outback settlement of [...]
Posted in Recommended, Serious on Jan 15th, 2009
Having read and loved Gilead I put Home on my Christmas list – I wasn’t disappointed.
Here is the description from the publisher …
Hundreds of thousands were enthralled by the luminous voice of John Ames in Gilead, Marilynne Robinson’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel. Home is an entirely independent, deeply affecting novel that takes place concurrently in the [...]
Posted in Fiction - Light, Recommended on Jan 1st, 2009
I got this book out of the library – from the young adult section, but I think it transcends that definition. The blurb …
“EVERY WAR HAS turning points and every person too.” Fifteen-year-old Daisy is sent from Manhattan to England to visit her aunt and cousins she’s never met: three boys near her [...]