It was probably one of the last books I bought on my Kindle before the book buying ban and also the last one in my recent non-fiction reading spree. Now I moved on to fiction, again hoping to find something more uplifting, I had the same hopes for non-fiction earlier and no such luck - …
Continue reading This is London: Life and Death in the World City – Ben Judah
This was my Christmas gift for myself. I read Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? at the beginning of the year and loved it, I still have to get to Oranges are Not the Only Fruit, so this was my second book by Jeanette Winterson. The full title is Christmas Days: 12 Stories an 12 Feasts for …
This book starts with an emotional earthquake and from then on keeps the tension all the way to the end. Veronica Hegarty has to tell her mother that her brother, Liam, is dead. Veronica is shocked and grieving herself and now she has to inflict this news on her mother, but at the same time …
I bought Homage to Barcelona together with Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell in preparation for my vacation in Spain. Never having read anything by Colm Toibin, and recently back from my trip to Ireland I got tempted to start with this one. The result is that Homage to Catalonia is still unread, over a month …
This one was something I rarely read - historical crime fiction, for some unknown reason I usually prefer myy crime to be contemporary, or at least 20th century. I probably was tempted to buy this one on one of the kindle sales, which is where I get most of my crime stash. The book is …
Continue reading The Devil in the Marshalsea – Antonia Hodgson
This is yet another time when I have to admit the impossible. I have not read a single Harry Potter book in my life. My knowledge o J.K. Rowling's writing is limited to reading, and quite enjoying, The Cuckoo's Calling. I bought this book shortly after it was published, tried to read it at some …
Beautiful Sylvia Kaye and another young woman had been seen hitching a ride not long before Sylvia's bludgeoned body is found outside a pub in Woodstock, near Oxford. Morse is sure the other hitchhiker can tell him much of what he needs to know. But his confidence is shaken by the cool inscrutability of the …
