The story of Frederick Charles St John Montgomery as narrated by Freddie Montgomery. If there ever was an unreliable narrator it's Freddie, guilty of murder and theft, in prison giving a statement on his life and his crimes. Being at time superficial, like Freddie, I'll begin with the physical aspect. I read a Picador Classic …
It is a collection of short stories, which is not my favorite thing in the world. I think I picked it as my first choice for my reading Ireland project, because my mum is a photographer (you can check out her pictures here and here). It consists of nineteen stories, all about women. Enright touches …
Let's start with the obvious - it is a very long book. Because of that I dreaded it a bit, as I rarely abandon books, so if this was a flop I knew it would cost me a lot of time. Luckily it wasn't. I finally found courage to start on it towards the end …
This was another of my pre-vacation buys before going to Spain for the first time. Maybe not an entirely planned one as I got it at the airport, so I knew I'd read it in Spain, which happened to be a very good decision, because I could observe some of the things described first hand. …
I probably bought this book after the movie was released and the whole world went crazy about Ryan Gosling. When possible I try to read the book before I watch the movie, so I can imagine the characters and places myself, rather than using pictures created by someone else (for me Don Vito Corleone will …
This book was generally classified as science fiction, which is probably why it took me so long from buying it to reading it. I like science fiction but only from time to time, I guess I’m not the technology type, but I do like sci-fi that probes the big questions: what makes us human, how …
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