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Monday, May 31st, 2010
Juliet, naked
I completely missed the fact that the fabulous Hornby had written another book! I loved About a boy, and especially A long way down. Wow. Who knew suicide was quite that hilarious? Juliet, naked is very Hornby, as in funny, weird and slightly unsettling.
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Thursday, April 22nd, 2010
Deal Breaker, Myron Bolitar
I am a bit of a Bolitar fan. I’ve read all of sports agent Myron’s adventures over the past few years. However, Harlan Coben’s latest addition to the series, The Last Song, isn’t his finest hour.
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Saturday, March 13th, 2010
Sparkles Louise Bagshawe
With the weather like it is and many of the roads still closed I decided to read some nice trashy beach novels, starting with Sparkles. And I quite enjoyed it.
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Sunday, March 7th, 2010
Authors’ photographs. Is it me, or are they just a very bad idea? I am a huge Guterson fan. Not so much though since I accidentally saw his picture. He looks more like some guy from Baywatch than the amazing writer I had in mind (elderly, grizzly). Disappointed! Still, East of the mountains is one of the most beautiful books I’ve ever read.
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Monday, March 1st, 2010
One Day David Nicholls
I went on a bit of a pub crawl and somewhere along my third caiperovska I lost the rather tepid book I was reading, Hidden Talents. A lucky thing as it turned out, because when I schlepped my hangover to the English Bookstore the next day I picked up One Day.
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Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
I’ll fess up to begin with: I don’t particularly like Nicolas Sparks. Books like The Notebook seem too contrived to me, and to lack any real feeling. However, I am living on a Spanish mountain and it’s been raining so badly that most of the roads are cut off, so I’ll pretty much read anything! And to be fair, it wasn’t all bad.
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Wednesday, September 30th, 2009
Nancy Mitford: The Pursuit of Love
The Radletts of Alconleigh are the pinnacle of fashionable, aristocratic eccentricity, from scary (& barmy) Lord Alconleigh (who, like Mitford’s own papa, likes to hunt his offspring with bloodhounds, much to the amusement of the children themselves), to his wife, absent minded Sadie, their flamboyant daughter Linda, and the other six lively Radlett children. Seen through the eyes of steady cousin Fanny, we follow this family through hasty marriages and Great love affairs, as World War II closes in on their vanishing world.
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Saturday, September 26th, 2009
I have long been an Iris Murdoch fan. I love her jumbled books, a love story, an illassorted group of acquaintances and the philosophical and religious themes. I loved The Black Knight and Under the Net, and really, I haven’t quite enjoyed her books as much ever since. Sill, even a bad Murdoch is quite readable, so After Nuns and Soldiers (all right, but not very good) I read An unofficial Rose.
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Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009
Tom Hanks as Robert Langdon. Yikes.
Oh my, I am being very unfashionable indeed, following up John Grisham with Dan Brown. If it pleases my reader, I read quite a lot of stuff in between, including Love in a cold climate, which I will review, but as Dan Brown is such a hype I thought I’d throw my two cents in.
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Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
Bleachers John Grisham
I know reading John Grisham is about as unfashionable as reading Dan Brown right about now. There´s a scene in Third Rock from the sun where they´re all reading John Grisham and they´ve accidentally switched books and hadn´t even noticed.
“What´s yours about?”
“Mine is about a young Southern lawyer struggling against justice”.
“So is mine!”
John Grisham has written stacks of legal thrillers and I actually quite like ´em. But he has also written books on sports. Football to be exact.
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