Reviews of Books
Posted in Recommended, Serious on Feb 9th, 2010
I picked this book us from the library (in large print! – I quite like large print I wonder if that means I need reading glasses?). I liked Anne Tyler. I like how her novels focus on more domestic themes – everyday life with all of its complexities. Here is the book description … In [...]
Posted in Non-Fiction on Feb 8th, 2010
This was one of my husband’s Christmas presents and I thought I would read it too. I’ve never been particularly interested in economics – I studied it at school and that was enough. However, this book is fun and interesting almost makes me want to go back and study economics. Although it appears microeconomics rather [...]
Posted in Serious on Feb 2nd, 2010
Atwood is one of my favourite authors. I was amazed I found one of her novels that I hadn’t read. This is one of her earlier works – her second novel first published in 1972. Plot summary from Wikipedia … The book tells the story of a woman who returns to her hometown in Canada [...]
Posted in Serious on Feb 1st, 2010
I got this book from the library – I’m not sure why I chose it. I think I felt that she was a novelist that one should read. A lay community of thoroughly mixed-up people is encamped outside Imber Abbey, home of an order of sequestered nuns. A new bell is being installed when suddenly [...]