Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
Book #902 Today’s book has the privilege of being a first for this blog – two reviews at the same time! Many thanks to Ange P and Sweetp for the dual review. Reviewer: Ange P Warning 1: probably not a...
View ArticleDisappearance – David Dabydeen
Book #131 Reviewer: Beth, of Beth’s List Love Work, work, work, that’s the doom of your people isn’t it? Isn’t that why the English shipped millions of you over to the Caribbean? So how come you don’t...
View ArticleUnless – Carol Shields
Book #27 Reviewer: Inspirationalreads I too am aware of being in incestuous waters, a woman writer who is writing about a woman writer who is writing … We may pretend otherwise, but to many writers...
View ArticleLove Medicine – Louise Erdrich
Book #222a Reviewer: Kara Love Medicine, by Louise Erdrich, is a book of short stories, but looking at them as a novel shows that the book is much bigger than the sum of its parts. This is a group of...
View ArticleA Severed Head – Iris Murdoch
Book #446 Reviewer: Inspirationalreads Martin Gibbon-Lynch is a 4o-ish wine seller, who is married to ageing beauty Antonia. While not entirely overjoyed in the marriage, Martin is content and assumes...
View ArticleThe Plague – Albert Camus
Book #559 Reviewer: Inspirationalreads Oran is a small town like any other; populated by people who seem to be engaged in a busy nothingness. Happy in their everyday life, not overly spectacular in...
View ArticlePerfume:The Story of a Murderer – Patrick Süskind
Book #243 Reviewer: Sweetp Perfume: The Story of a Murderer is a book I’ve had on my ‘to-read’ list for some time. I started reading it with some trepidation since horror isn’t my usual genre of...
View ArticleLegend – David Gemmell
Book #248 Reviewer: Inspirationalreads Aaaaaahhhhh. That is the sound of me settling into one of my favourite genres, a first for my reads for this blog. Fantasy, my first and if I am honest,...
View ArticleFarewell, My Lovely – Raymond Chandler
Book #586 Reviewer: Beth’s List Love (first published January 2013) It was a warm day, almost the end of March, and I stood outside the barbershop looking up at the jutting neon sign of a second floor...
View ArticleThe Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
Book #254 Reviewer: Inspirationalreads Two years after I killed Blyth I murdered my young brother Paul, for quite different and more fundamental reasons than I’d disposed of Blyth, and then a year...
View ArticleNever Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
Book #1 Reviewer: Inspirationalreads So I want to start out by saying that I am going to be deliberately vague about the finer points of this novel. Like others on this list, I have avoided any kind...
View ArticleThe Body Artist – Don DeLillo
Book #45 Reviewer: Inspirationalreads Lauren Hartke is the body artist of the title. A performance artist, she is married to film maker Rey Robles who shortly after we are introduced to him, drives to...
View ArticleThe Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison
Book #365 Reviewer: Inspirationalreads There is a commonly held belief that a reader will live a thousand lives in a space of one lifetime. Sometimes those lives are fun, sometimes morbidly...
View ArticleSputnik Sweetheart – Haruki Murakami
Book #78 Reviewer: Angelo Please welcome our newest reviewer Angelo. We haven’t had a new addition to the team in a while and we look forward to many more insightful reviews. “No man should go through...
View ArticleAnimal Farm – George Orwell
Book #564 Reviewer: Inspirationalreads There are not many unfamiliar (well, many readers) with this allegorical tale of farm animals rising up to overthrow their human owner and install a new regime in...
View ArticleThe Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
Book #521 Reviewer: Inspirationalreads I have long associated Hemingway as being the most masculine of writers. I was aware of him being a keen hunter and the titles of his books, in particular A...
View ArticleWomen in Love – D. H. Lawrence
Book #728 Reviewer: Lizzie C Another first time reviewer here on the blog – welcome along Lizzie. C! Before I begin it has been years since I have sat down and written any kind of book review so...
View ArticleWaiting for the Barbarians – J.M Coetzee
Book #287 Reviewer: Inspirationalreads With an impressive ten books on the list, this is surprisingly the first Coetzee to be reviewed on this site. A Nobel Prize winner and two-time Booker prize...
View ArticleQuote of the Week
For our most recent literary loss. “Elmore Leonard’s Ten Rules of Writing 1. Never open a book with weather. 2. Avoid prologues. 3. Never use a verb other than “said” to carry dialogue. 4. Never use...
View ArticleQuote of the Week
But for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short. Jane Austen Filed under: The Editors Tagged: Quotes
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