Showing posts with label review. Show all posts
Showing posts with label review. Show all posts
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

Stefanie Irany, Josep Vicent and ADDA orchestra in Strauss, Berlioz and Tchaikovsky

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Programa Richard Strauss, Muerte y Transfiguración Op.24 23:00 Hector Berlioz, La muerte de Cleopatra 22:00   I.  C’en est donc fait! 03...

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...
Sunday, February 26, 2023

Dreams From My Father by Barack Obama

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Dreams From My Father is Barack Obama’s early autobiography, written before he went to law school. It details his early years and basically ...
Sunday, February 20, 2022

Costa Blanca Arts Update - Shostakovich 5 and Symphonie Espagnole in ADDA, Alicante

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The fifth Symphony of Dmitri Shostakovich was reportedly “a Soviet artist's creative response to justified criticism”. That past critic...
Thursday, December 16, 2021

Swann’s Way – In Search of Lost Time Volume 1 Marcel Proust

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  Imagine a collage, an assemblage of the entire output of august artists, especially those of fin-de-siecle France, those one-time upstarts...
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 ...
Tuesday, October 26, 2021

SPQR by Mary Beard

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  I have just finished Mary Beard’s SPQR. I have just started Susan Sontag’s Against Interpretation. The connection? Susan Sontag’s essay de...
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...
Wednesday, September 30, 2020

The Journey of Anders Sparrman by Per Wästberg

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To say that The Journey of Anders Sparrman , by Per Wästberg is a tale of two halves would transcend cliché. Rarely will one encounter such ...
Tuesday, July 28, 2020

Reflections on String Quartet No.1, Kreutzer Sonata, by Leos Janacek

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Leos Janacek´s musical voice is unique. No other music behaves or sounds like his. There are no long lines or tunes. His harmonies are unli...