I don’t remember how I was recommended this novel, but am thankful post-read that I came across this un-put-down-able book. A good old-fashioned murder mystery with some very interesting characters, this book stood out because of it’s story-telling style and dry wit. The story is narrated by the book’s heroine 11 year old Flavia, and […]
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Review : The Sharing Knife Series – Book 1 (Beguilement)
Call me hopeful, but I’m ideally looking for a mix of sci-fi and romance in the same novel. It’s always interesting to have a major sci-fi plotline with a minor romance thread running through it. So, I thought I’d hit the jack-pot when I came across Louis McMaster Bujold’s “The Sharing Knife” series”. I mean […]
Read the rest of this entry »The Sunday philosophy club
This is the second part of a review of Alexander Mcall Smith’s books – the first part is here. I’m on page 156 (of 247) of the first book in the “Isabel Dalhousie” series, and Ms. Dalhousie has done little more than pontificate on various problems. The problem which requires her investigative powers is this […]
Read the rest of this entry »The Bookworm tag
A muser tagged me a really long time ago, with a pretty interesting Bookworm tag. I’m completing it now. Was off blogging for some time, but hopefully will be more current now. So apologies Muser, here it is. The tag was : Pick up the nearest book.Open to page 123.Find the fifth sentence.Post the next […]
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This is part II of this post. Some more excerpts from “Heartburn” – what Rachel Samstat thinks about stuff : Describing her husband Mark – He has a black beard , but the part of it that’s on the left side of his chin has a little white stripe in it, where the skin underneath […]
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Nora Ephron’s “Heartburn” came highly recommended. Although, the novel on the whoel was just about OK, Ephron had moments where she was just so bitingly fierce and funny at the same time, it made me yearn for more. It makes perfect sense to call hers a rapier wit. I believe she got most of her […]
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This is the first novel by Khaled Hosseini, and I’d describe it as stunning. And I actually mean stunning – I’m not saying it for effect. Once in a while you read a novel where the prose is so clear, that each word has impact, and you can see the events unfolding before your eyes. […]
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My favorite hang-out place besides my home, and the back-yard is the local library. I don’t have to speak or listen, I can just read. Walls of books and magazines surround me, and I can check out as many as I want. The service is great and the librarian actually wants to help. Best of […]
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Most recently, read “Citizen Girl”. Its by Emma Mc Laughlin and Nicola Kraus, the authors of “Nanny diaries”. The heroine of “Citizen Girl” is also called “Girl”, fresh in the job market, and looking for jobs in the Journalism/Feminism/Social Work Sector. The book details her travails when she gets a job at “My Company” (her […]
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