Tuesday, July 15, 2008

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote: Crime, punishment, and more

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In Cold Blood by Truman Capote was published in 1966, and is based on events that happened almost fifty years ago. The events were real. Thi...
Saturday, July 12, 2008

The Inheritance Of Loss by Kiran Desai

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The Inheritance Of Loss by Kiran Desai is a magnificent, impressive novel that ultimately is disappointing. As a process, the book is almost...
Wednesday, July 9, 2008

The End Of The Affair by Graham Greene

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Anyone who has lived in London could place the Common that forms a geographical centrepiece in The End Of The Affair by Graham Greene. It do...
Friday, July 4, 2008

Ashes To The Vistula by Bill Copeland

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“The insanity of war has robbed me of everything I knew and loved.” These are the words of Filip Stitchko, a Pole, a concentration camp kapo...
Monday, June 30, 2008

The Way To Paradise by Mario Vargas Llosa

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I rarely read novels more than once. There are some I have read several times, but the list might just run to double figures. I have read Th...
Thursday, June 19, 2008

The Spanish Inquisition – An Historical Revision by Henry Kamen

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Henry Kamen´s The Spanish Inquisition is an amazing experience. It is a highly detailed, supremely scholarly and ultimately enlightening acc...

Where We Once Belonged by Sia Figiel

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Where We Once Belonged by Sia Figiel is a novel set in Samoa, a novel that won the Commonwealth Writers Prize. At one level it is a simple s...