Ben Goldacre “Bad Pharma”- book review
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John Le Carré’s “The Constant Gardner” – book review
I read it at breakfast, lunch and any other possible time I could find during the day… Continue reading John Le Carré’s “The Constant Gardner” – book review
Joseph Conrad “A Personal Record” – book review
This is not a chronological autobiography – Conrad doesn’t go through all the events of his life. Instead, he focuses on what one might call turning points: when he decided to join the navy, when he wrote his first novel, when he revisited his hometown after 20 years absence. The whole is a carefully crafted meditation on what it means for him to be a writer. … Continue reading Joseph Conrad “A Personal Record” – book review
Kazuo Ishiguro “The Remains of a Day”- book review
I’d heard excellent things about this book, but even so, I wasn’t quite prepared to love it as much as I did. The setting of the novel is officially in the 1950s, but most of the action takes place in the main character’s memories – in the 1920s and 1930. Stevens, the butler in Darlington Hall, pays little attention to the Germanophile politics of the … Continue reading Kazuo Ishiguro “The Remains of a Day”- book review
Mary Beard’s SPQR – book review
It took me two years to finally read my chunky hardback copy (signed) of Mary Beard’s SPQR, but it was definitely worth it. Continue reading Mary Beard’s SPQR – book review
Joseph Conrad “Typhoon and Other Tales” – book review
Joseph Conrad’s Typhoon and Other Tales – a book review This short Oxford University Press edition includes four short stories by Joseph Conrad: Typhoon, Falk, Amy Foster and The Secret Sharer, and a very useful introduction. I loved it. I do not typically read shorter fiction, but these stories were incredibly satisfying in their sense of completeness and wholenesss as works of art. Nabokov once said in his Lectures … Continue reading Joseph Conrad “Typhoon and Other Tales” – book review
John Steinbeck “The Grapes of Wrath”- book review
I did not expect to enjoy this book half as much as I did. Continue reading John Steinbeck “The Grapes of Wrath”- book review
Wordless Wednesday
Why I’m behind with my book reading this autumn… Continue reading Wordless Wednesday
Stacking the Shelves Saturday
Today is bookshop day… so, of course, I had to celebrate by visiting a bookshop. Continue reading Stacking the Shelves Saturday
Top Ten Tuesdays – books I used to re-read again when I was a teenager
Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created at The Broke and the Bookish in June 2010 – there’s a different topic for every week. This week’s topic is a Throwback Freebie- so I chose to write about I’ve slowed down a bit with re-reading books recently. It’s not that I have fewer books that I would like to be reading…. The opposite in … Continue reading Top Ten Tuesdays – books I used to re-read again when I was a teenager
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