Recent Posts Tagged With 'book'

• Discomfort books

  Posted on Sunday November 8th, 2009 at 20:54 in books, review, book, Film, introspection, marjorie morningstar

  Jennifer Byrne from the First Tuesday Book Club on ABC1 says her comfort book is Marjorie Morningstar by Herman Wouk. She read it when she was a teenager and it resonated. It’s the story of a Jewish teenager  in the 1930s, living in New York...

• Careless in Red by Elizabeth George

  Posted on Sunday January 4th, 2009 at 03:01 in books, book, reading, hawaii, random, coincidence, cornwall, cornish, elizabeth george, careless in red

  Here’s the massive coincidence. The last two books I’ve read have been The Islands by Di Morrissey and Careless in Red by Elizabeth George. (I know I’m supposed to have been reading The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga - the Booker Priz...

• The Islands by Di Morrissey

  Posted on Saturday January 3rd, 2009 at 03:37 in books, book, hawaii, the islands, di morrissey

  When you pick up a Di Morrissey book you are not expecting high literature, or even medium-high. You are expecting a rollocking saga with beautiful women and unreachable men set in an exotic location with a nod to the local culture. In this novel tha...

• Breath by Tim Winton

  Posted on Sunday October 5th, 2008 at 01:27 in books, review, book, surfing, breath, tim winton

  I think this is Tim Winton’s best novel.  He has lost his earlier pretentiousness.  His writing is spare, evocative and compelling.  The tale is told by a paramedic in his 50s who attends an accidental hanging.   He knows it’s accid...

• The Spare Room by Helen Garner

  Posted on Thursday October 2nd, 2008 at 10:41 in books, review, book, Cancer, fiction, novel, helen garner, the spare room

  I had no interest in picking up Helen Garner’s latest novel The Spare Room. Helen has always seemed a little worthy, a little hard core for me. I based this assessment on what I’d seen of her in the media and some vague memory of her w...

• The Grave Tattoo by Val McDermid

  Posted on Saturday September 27th, 2008 at 10:05 in books, review, book, val mcdermid, the grave tattoo

  I like Val McDermid’s writing. I always have.  From Wire in the Blood to her lighter novels, they never fail to entertain.  Highly descriptive, great character profiles, a page-turning plot. In The Grave Tattoo the action centres around the d...

• Rhett Butler’s People by Donald McCaig

  Posted on Tuesday September 16th, 2008 at 06:50 in review, book, civil war, gone with the wind, rhett butler, scarlett o'hara, margaret mitchell, donald mccaig, rhett butler's people

  First of all, I LOVED Gone With the Wind. The sweeping saga, the feisty heroine, the dashing, rich, and rather butch hero… with a soft side. *Swoon* And I’ve not loved sequels written by random authors. It was there on the “new...

• Motor Mouth by Janet Evanovich

  Posted on Sunday August 10th, 2008 at 00:18 in book, janet evanovich, barnaby, motor mouth

  So from Disgrace to Motormouth… well I needed a little light relief, a little escapism. You know what I’m talking about? Well that’s what I got people! [whoops... watching a little too much So You Think You Can Dance] It’s ab...