The fourth book about Patrick Melrose took me the longest to read and was the first book in the series that actually made me doubt the decision to read any series at all. Continue reading Mother’s Milk, Patrick Melrose #4 by Edward St. Aubyn
An exceptional pacifist novel about WWI, but unfortunately I failed to like the book as much as I anticipated. Continue reading The Salt of the Earth by Jozef Wittlin
A fast-paced psychological thriller about a woman after coma and her search for the truth. Continue reading Day of the Accident by Nuala Ellwood
You will realise early on that Cora Seaborne is quite an unusual person for England in 1893. She’s fascinated by science, biology and nature. She loves wearing men’s clothing and walking alone in the woods. She also dreams about finding a living dinosaur. Continue reading The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry
Another one of those teenage love stories that have probably been around even before Shakespeare times Continue reading A Walk To Remember by Nicholas Sparks or the book I should have never picked up
The fears for Patrick got confirmed. Bad News is bad news indeed. Continue reading Bad News, Patrick Melrose novel #2 by Edward St Aubyn
Here’s the beautiful book I’ve been promising to show you. Continue reading The Master and Margarita 50th-Anniversary Edition
It’s a story about a socially challenged scientist called Don who’s setting on a quest to find a perfect wife for himself. Don’s methods of looking for a wife are very peculiar. Continue reading The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
This book was my first attempt in decades to read a book of this genre. It didn’t go very well. Continue reading Uprooted by Naomi Novik or my failed attempt to enjoy fantasy
What?! Have I just read a young adult novel and I liked it? O_O Continue reading Bone Gap by Laura Ruby
There are implications online that Daphne du Maurier plagiarised Frank Baker’s story The Birds to create her story of the same name. In this post I will compare and review the two books and also will talk about Hitchcock’s movie. Continue reading The Birds by du Maurier, The Birds by Baker, The Birds by Hitchcock. Who plagiarised what?
If you get squeamish about body parts spectacularly falling out of places they originally were attached to, this book might be not a proper reading choice for you. Continue reading The Chalk Man by C. J. Tudor
