Amazon link This is book three in my attempt to read fifty books in 2005. Now this is more like it. I was getting a bit jaded after the first two books, but this is much more to my taste. Strong hints of transexuality (or is that transexualism) in the first sentence followed by incest… Continue reading Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
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The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
Amazon Link This is number two in my attempt to read fifty books this year. It was certainly a very simple read. The prose is very plain. I’m told that this is part of its charm, but I find it hard not to see it as a limitation of the author. It’s not that I… Continue reading The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
The Bookseller of Kabul by Åsne Seierstad
Amazon link Guess what? Life in Afganistan under the Taliban was a bit shit. Particularly if you were a woman. And since the Taliban have gone it’s only got a little bit better. Seierstad spent a few months living with a family in Kabul soon after the Taliban were removed and this is her interpretation… Continue reading The Bookseller of Kabul by Åsne Seierstad
Left Behind
I recently read Left Behind by Tim Lahaye and Jerry B. Jenkins. It’s the first in a series of books about what happens when The Rapture comes and all the “real” xtians are taken off to heaven and the rest of us are left behind to deal on our own. It’s not the kind of… Continue reading Left Behind
Top 1000
Cool. I just discovered that I’m an Amazon UK Top 1000 reviewer. Of course, I’m still not buying from them.
BOYBN
Every 10 years the literary magazine Granta publishes a list of the “Best of Young British Novelists”. It’s a list of what their panel of judges consider the 20 most interesting novelists of the time. By “young” they mean 40 or under and by “British” they mean having a British passwort. In 1983 the list… Continue reading BOYBN
The Salmon of Doubt
I’ve just finished reading Douglas Adams’ final book The Salmon of Doubt. It’s not really his last book. Or rather it’s not how his last book would have been if he had been around to finish it. It’s actually a dozen or so chapters from various drafts of the book that were found on his… Continue reading The Salmon of Doubt