Book number six and a first DNF, hopefully also the last one. I got this book from Netgalley ages ago, so long ago that it is really shameful I am only reviewing it now, but it is stuck on my Kindle together with 25 other books I requested in some fit of craziness. Hence my …
Continue reading Shadowboxing with Bukowski – Darrell Kastin
Finally after more than a year my reading of The American Trilogy is now complete. I liked Human Stain a lot, I absolutely loved American Pastoral, so I was excited about this one, I even delayed reading it a bit just to know I have something delicious ahead of me. The premise is very similar …
I heard a lot about this book before I read it, it was hard not to: it won Costa first novel award and was the book of the year 2016. Then there was a lot of positive reviews, which led me to buying it and then it lingered in my Kindle for well over a …
For now it's the last one of the three books I bought this year, so I think I'm doing pretty good with my book buying ban, three books bought and all read, so they didn't make my TBR grow. De Botton in this book takes a look at different aspects of travelling, he sets out …
I read this after finishing the awful A Family Affair, because I needed something light, but not stupid or horrible and I remembered Grisham from my early twenties to be dependable in that respect. It was the same this time, while it's not the best Grisham I've read, it was still readable (and didn't include any …
This book was a first for me for two reasons: my first Elizabeth von Arnim and my first Virago Modern Classic. Both widely recommended by other book bloggers, so as usually I am late to the party. But i is because of those recommendations that I grabbed this book in a second hand bookshop as …
Continue reading Elizabeth and Her German Garden – Elizabeth von Arnim
We Need to Talk About Kevin has been on my TBR for two years now, but I'm dreading it a bit, either I'll hate the epistolary form, or it will be an amazing book and devastating because of that. Stuck in this conundrum I decided to start easy and got on to Big Brother. Pandora and …
It is a short book, so I'll keep my review short too. The length of the book does not make it any less important. Hitchens writes a series of letters to an imaginary young contrarian, explaining what it means to him to be a free-thinking rebel. He is extremely full of himself, overly confident to …
Continue reading Letters to a Young Contrarian – Christopher Hitchens
I only read two books by Barnes: The Sense of an Ending, which I liked, but not loved and Keeping an Eye Open: Essays on Art, which I loved at the beginning, but it became a bit repetitive by the end (it's a collection of essays, so probably better suited to read over a longer period of time than …
I mentioned in my May round-up I have no idea how I bought this book. It was in my Kindle forever, always in the 'fiction crime' folder, so after finishing the Big Brother by Lionel Shriver and in need of something lighter I decided to read this, mainly because it's been there forever. A note …
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