I read this March 2016 it is the choice for May Regency Book Club.
Not for the faint earthed This is a grueling tale of the Burma Death Railway. The author's father was a survivor. It is beautifully written (winner of the Man Booker prize 2014) I think it's being made into a film. It is a love story, a human story an inhuman story... The blurb sums it up:
In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Burma Death Railway, surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his love affair with his uncle's young wife two years earlier. Struggling to save the men under his command from starvation, from cholera , from beatings, he receives a letter that will change his life forever. This is a story about the many forms of love and death, of war and truth, as one man comes of age, prospers, only to discover all that he has lost.
Heartbreaking and gruesome, I really enjoyed this book
10/10
Monday 7 March 2016
Saturday 5 March 2016
A Tap in the Window by Linwood Barclay
I read this March 2016 it is the Regency Book Club book for May 2016.
I have read Trust your Eyes by LB before and ths is much the same genre. A page turning Thriller.
A cop turned Private Detective Cal Weaver whose son fell to his death while on drugs, is at a stop light when a tap on the window of the car reveals a young girl (who knew his son) in the pouring rain, needing a lift. Kidnap, death, drugs bent cops, it's all there...
I really enjoyed this book, very easy to read and not a predictable ending.
9/10
I have read Trust your Eyes by LB before and ths is much the same genre. A page turning Thriller.
A cop turned Private Detective Cal Weaver whose son fell to his death while on drugs, is at a stop light when a tap on the window of the car reveals a young girl (who knew his son) in the pouring rain, needing a lift. Kidnap, death, drugs bent cops, it's all there...
I really enjoyed this book, very easy to read and not a predictable ending.
9/10
Island by Aldous Huxley
I read this in March 2016. I picked it up at a bus station book shelf/swap shelf. I thought it would be good to read after just rereading Brave New World.
A Journalist (Will Farnaby) working on the Far East is ship wrecked on the Island of Pala, where it's people live in peace and harmony. There is a potential takeover of the Island's Oil reserves and various factions are vying for the rights. conveniently the natives all speak English and there is advanced medicine.
I found this a bit more 'of it's time' than BNW. Too wordy and a bit laborious to read.
6/10
A Journalist (Will Farnaby) working on the Far East is ship wrecked on the Island of Pala, where it's people live in peace and harmony. There is a potential takeover of the Island's Oil reserves and various factions are vying for the rights. conveniently the natives all speak English and there is advanced medicine.
I found this a bit more 'of it's time' than BNW. Too wordy and a bit laborious to read.
6/10
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