Reviews of Books
Posted in Fiction, Recommended on Jul 30th, 2012
I’ve read The Good Mayor (which I loved) and The Life and Death of Caterina (which I liked, but not as much), so when I saw this one I just had to read it. Here’s the blurb … ’I want people to know how Otto Witte, acrobat of Hamburg, became the crowned king of Albania.’ Otto Witte [...]
Posted in Fiction, Recommended on Jul 26th, 2012
I read this novel in school – I am sure that is the same for a multitude of people – and I enjoyed it and thought it was very decadent and sophisticated. Reading it now I realise just how much I missed the first time round. Here is the book description … The Great Gatsby, [...]
Posted in Fiction, Recommended on Jul 22nd, 2012
I like a good crime novel – Agatha Christie, Kellerman (Jonathan not Faye – although that’s not a criticism I just haven’t read any of Faye’s). I really enjoyed Rankin’s Rebus series – I haven’t read them all and certainly not in order, but those I have read I liked. This novel has a new [...]
Posted in Fiction on Jul 8th, 2012
Reading this novel is a bit like running a marathon – each little bit seems easy it’s all of them together that is over whelming. It was an easy read, but very long. Here is the synopsis from Wikipedia … Finn is the only son of a successful Irish doctor, Dr Malachi Finn of Killaloe, [...]