Showing posts with label novel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label novel. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 27, 2024

Aaron’s Rod by D H Lawrence

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Aaron’s Rod by DH Lawrence is a perplexing novel. It seems to represent two quite different aspects of the writer’s creativity. One side has...
Friday, April 26, 2024

A Long Way from Home - Peter Carey

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A Long Way From Home is a novel that takes the reader a long way from any comfort zone. It is challenging in many ways and perhaps it is onl...
Tuesday, April 23, 2024

Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan

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Unusually, I am not going to write a full review of this. To say I was disappointed by the book would be an understatement. It was clear wha...
Tuesday, October 10, 2023

The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafaq

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The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafaq is a novel about Cyprus and its recent history. Via the love affair and developing relationship b...
Tuesday, April 4, 2023

Normal People by Sally Rooney

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Sally Rooney’s Normal People is a hugely successful and very widely read novel about millennials. It concentrates on the relationships that ...
Friday, January 27, 2023

Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf

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Between The Acts by Virginia Woolf is the author’s last novel. It is often described as a difficult read. And indeed, difficult it is, not b...
Monday, March 14, 2022

Memorias de mis putas tristes by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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G abriel Garcia Marquez may have invented magical realism, a writing style that stresses realism in language to the extent that images becom...
Saturday, January 29, 2022

The Daydreamer by Ian McEwan

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Ostensibly, The Daydreamer by Ian McEwan is a book for children. It ’ s not really a novel, because the author himself conceived these piece...
Monday, January 24, 2022

According To Queeney by Beryl Bainbridge

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On the surface, According To Queeney by Beryl Bainbridge might appear to be firmly rooted in the genre of historical fiction. Its cover port...
Friday, January 21, 2022

The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust

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  In a turn of uncharacteristic succinctness, Gioachino Rossini, himself the composer of long-winded and often empty vocal gymnastics undert...
Tuesday, January 11, 2022

The Green Road by Ann Enright

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  Ann Enright’s The Green Road, eventually, is a family saga, but its characters cover a large part of the globe before joining forces in th...
Friday, December 10, 2021

The Witch of Portobello by Paulo Coelho

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  The Witch of Portobello is a novel by Paulo Coelho. Perhaps already there is already a divide. There are readers, many of them, for whom t...
Tuesday, December 7, 2021

La Ciudad de las Bestias (The City of Beasts) by Isabel Allende

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  La Ciudad de las Bestias (The City of Beasts) is a novel by Isabel Allende. I read it in Spanish, without consulting reviews or doing any ...
Monday, October 25, 2021

The Umbrella Men by Keith Carter

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  In The Umbrella Men, Keith Carter directs various characters in a plot to act out the financial crisis of 2008. The author specifically wa...
Monday, October 18, 2021

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

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  The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold is a novel about loss. It deals with the idea that bereavement changes the living, opens a hole in surviv...
Tuesday, April 27, 2021

Anglo Saxon Attitudes by Angus Wilson

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This particular reviewer rarely writes a negative review. If it didn’t communicate with me, there ’ s no need to assume that it will not com...