I read this in 2018 with the Page Turners Book Club.
A grumpy old man and his new inapt neighbours build up a mutually beneficial relationship
Monday 6 August 2018
Kiling Floor By Lee Child
I read this in 2018
A typical Lee Child, Jack Reacher! A fight, a woman, sex, injustice, putting the world to rights and moving on....
A typical Lee Child, Jack Reacher! A fight, a woman, sex, injustice, putting the world to rights and moving on....
One of Our Thursdays is Missing by JasperFforde
I read this in 2018
Another of Jasper Fforde, funny surreal masterpieces. This one is from The Thursday Next series.
There is genre war brewing in Book World and only Literary detective Thursday Next can avert it... So cleverly written , a whole world within each book... characters moving around from book to book.
Brilliant stuff..
Another of Jasper Fforde, funny surreal masterpieces. This one is from The Thursday Next series.
There is genre war brewing in Book World and only Literary detective Thursday Next can avert it... So cleverly written , a whole world within each book... characters moving around from book to book.
Brilliant stuff..
The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde
I read this in 2018
A book form the Nursery Crime series....
It's Easter in Reading - a bad time for eggs - and the shattered, tuxedo clad corpse of Humpty Stuyvesant Van Dumpty II has been found lying beneath a wall in a shabby part of town.
I love this sort of book, Magic Realism
A detective story with an interweaving of humour and nursery rhyme references
A book form the Nursery Crime series....
It's Easter in Reading - a bad time for eggs - and the shattered, tuxedo clad corpse of Humpty Stuyvesant Van Dumpty II has been found lying beneath a wall in a shabby part of town.
I love this sort of book, Magic Realism
A detective story with an interweaving of humour and nursery rhyme references
SS-GB by Len Deighton
I read this in 2018
Len Deighton is author of such books as the Ipcress File etc. I haven't read any of his before and read this because I had missed the BBC TV series.
The plot is about Britain if the Nazis had won WWII. It starts : In Feb 1941 British command has surrendered to the Nazis, Churchill has been executed, the King is in the Tower and the SS are in Whitehall.
An occupied Britain , a murder, Scotland Yard, espionage....a cracking mix, a good story line, I did find some of the dialogue a little stilted. But a good enjoyable read.
Len Deighton is author of such books as the Ipcress File etc. I haven't read any of his before and read this because I had missed the BBC TV series.
The plot is about Britain if the Nazis had won WWII. It starts : In Feb 1941 British command has surrendered to the Nazis, Churchill has been executed, the King is in the Tower and the SS are in Whitehall.
An occupied Britain , a murder, Scotland Yard, espionage....a cracking mix, a good story line, I did find some of the dialogue a little stilted. But a good enjoyable read.
Atomised by Michel Houellebecq
I reread this in early 2018
I enjoyed this much better the second time, and I have also now seen the film. The plot is about 2 half-brothers bought up separately, who are 2 very different adults. Michel is a thinker with not much sex life to talk about, while his brther Bruno is the opposite. Makes for an interesting read, and a good film.
I enjoyed this much better the second time, and I have also now seen the film. The plot is about 2 half-brothers bought up separately, who are 2 very different adults. Michel is a thinker with not much sex life to talk about, while his brther Bruno is the opposite. Makes for an interesting read, and a good film.
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