About books
Do you still remember the land between being a child and a young adult? The year or so just before puberty? Yes, this one is for kids, Neil Gaiman’s Coraline. And yes, you all read it, I know. But darn this was a scary read for this adult reader, and I felt like I was […]
All the Colours of Darkness is Inspector Banks-book # 18. If you’ve been following this blog, you know that I came into this series rather late, and just read the books in no particular order. I still have a bunch of the earliest ones that I haven’t read yet, whereas I am pretty much up-to-date […]
I bought Bad Friends by Claire Seeber somehow thinking it was YA. I had even placed it on my YA-shelf, and when I picked it up last week to read, I was also sure it was YA. Until a few pages in when the drinks began to flow and the cigarettes were smoked. Then I […]
Banks is still relatively new on the Eastvale Policeforce after having left a stressful job in London. He originally moved to Yorkshite to find some peace and quiet, but already in book one, Gallow’s View, he realises that that is not always so. I this book two, A Dedicated Man, Banks once again finds out that […]
Tell Me No Secrets is a mystery and Julie Corbin’s debut. As such it is a great little book with a relatively tight plot, and the persons seem believable. Almost. On the other hand I can’t say that I was overly impressed, because this one didn’t catch me at all. That is not the author’s […]
One Day by David Nicholls is a saga spanning 20 years. We follow Emma Morley and Dexter Mayhew from the day they graduate from university and the next 20 years. Each year we meet them on July 15, where the author takes us through both the current day’s happenings and the things which has happened […]
I liked almost everything in this book. The meeting of Digory and Polly, the strange passageway between their houses, the ‘mad’ uncle Andrew and his aspirations to become a magician, his magic rings and the making of Narnia by strong and brave Aslan, the lion. I was also in awe of the description of the […]
I wrote this review on British Amazon early in 2004. The book is called Spellbound in Europe and To Have and To Hold in the US. Spellbound is a disappointing novel from Jane Green, who usually writes enjoyable “modern fairytales” like Bookends and Jemima J. In Spellbound we meet Alice and Joe, married for 5 […]
Aftermath is number 12 in the Inspector Banks series by Peter Robinson. Some of you will know that I’ve read a lot of books in the series, but completely out of order. That has not really bothered me, and it didn’t bother me this time, although I remembered the case of this book because I’ve […]
I read this book some years ago thinking it was about a young woman, not a girl. One one of the first pages of It’s Okay, I’m Wearing Really Big Knickers (Confessions of Georgia Nicolson) it says that Georgia, our heroine, is a youg Bridget Jones. And that is not all that wrong.The book is […]
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