Reviews of Books
Posted in Recommended, Serious on Oct 27th, 2009
I’m a keen Margaret Atwood fan so I couldn’t wait to get my hands on this week. Being slightly more organised that normal, I re-read Oryx and Crake (although I think The Year of the Flood can be read without having first read Oryx and Crake). The way Atwood uses language is breath taking – [...]
Posted in Recommended, Serious on Oct 26th, 2009
I’ve been making an effort to get books from the library and this is one I found while browsing (I was looking for Sarah Waters). It one the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. I liked this one – Maggie is so annoying. She interferes with the best of intentions and then just makes every thing [...]
Posted in Recommended, Serious on Oct 16th, 2009
My book club chose this book because the author is Western Australian and it was reviewed as being one of the ‘must reads’. It had a lovely visual quality and the writing was simple, but eloquent. Here is the publisher’s blurb … ‘Photography has without doubt made her a seer; she is a woman of [...]
Posted in Fiction - Light on Oct 15th, 2009
I’ve been a Katie Fforde fan for a long time. When I hear about a new novel I pre-order it so I can get it quickly. They are very formulaic (and there is something comforting in that) and easy to read. Here’s the information from Katie Fforde’s website … With bookshop where she works about [...]
Posted in Fiction - Light, Recommended on Oct 14th, 2009
I bought this book based on a few blog entries. I’m not quite sure what I was expecting. It was a fun, light and entertaining novel, but just a bit strange. This novel is about imagination and group flights of imagination and family ties. It has a definite upper-middle class English feel to it. This novel [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous on Oct 13th, 2009
This is my latest collection of new books. Her Fearful Symmetry Audrey Niffenegger Ballet ShoesNoel Streatfeild The Brontes Ingham The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Anne Bronte The Year of the Flood Margaret Atwood And some more from the second hand book store. The Longest Journey E. M. Forster A Wreath of Roses Elizabeth Taylor Brideshead Revisited [...]
Posted in Fiction - Light on Oct 12th, 2009
I’m a keen Marian Keyes fan. I’ve read them all – they’re one of my guilty pleasures. While on holiday (here) I read in the paper that she had a new book out, so I popped down to the local Book Store and picked up (what I think might have been their only copy) a [...]