David Guterson East of the mountains review
Posted by admin on Mar 7, 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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David Nicholls One Day review: Loved it!
Posted by admin on Mar 1, 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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Nicholas Sparks Dear John review: not all bad.
Posted by admin on Feb 23, 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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Review: Hillary Mantel Wolf Hall (a bit boring)
Posted by admin on Feb 18, 2010
Thomas Cromwell by Hans Holbein
Winner of the booker Prize, rave reviews (among others “a truly great English novel”) all over the place and a historic novel: how could this possibly go wrong?
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The Pursuit of love – Nancy Mitford (review)
Posted by admin on Sep 30, 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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When will there be good news? Kate Atkinson – review
Posted by admin on Sep 29, 2009
When will there be good news?
Private detective Jackson Brody is back for yet another misadventure. Kate Atkinson is one of the few people in the world who can make dreadful crimes funny, interesting and almost poetic. Jackson doesn’t catch a break this entire book, poor lamb, must be hard work!
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An unofficial rose – Iris Murdoch
Posted by admin on Sep 26, 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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Dan Brown & The lost symbol: Robert Langdon must die!
Posted by admin on Sep 22, 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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John Grisham – Bleachers review
Posted by admin on Aug 25, 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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Agatha Christie – The Big Four
Posted by admin on Aug 24, 2009
I love Agatha Christie novels. I´ve read ´em all, several times and in fact, I love her so much that when I grow up, I want to be Miss Marple. She is my favorite heroine. Sharp as a needle, righteous, and she´s always knitting something soft and woolly. More than simply being about cleverly solving murders, Miss Marple is part of a small community, and always visiting distant cousins and writing to her family. Read the rest of this entry »
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