Maybe this time we will move. Last weekend we decided we had enough of living out of boxes, and would stop trying to find a house exchange. Someone had already arranged to come and look at our place so we said we would go ahead with that, not be too bothered if nothing came of [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Books'
Travelling without moving
September 21st, 2010 · No Comments · Life
Tags: Books·Housing·Sherlock Holmes
Temptation
September 3rd, 2010 · 9 Comments · Technology
It has been a long time since I have been sorely tempted by a new gadget, which is a bit of a relief for the wallet but makes life more boring. I used to be able to spend hours browsing Comet or PC World wanting every other thing in there but I have sort of [...]
Union Atlantic
August 24th, 2010 · No Comments · Life
I recently finished reading Union Atlantic, a debut novel by Adam Haslett – another book from Amazon’s Vine programme. I was a bit underwhelmed by it.
Life imitating art?
August 20th, 2010 · No Comments · Life
Sometimes it is nice when books come to life. Not if the book is by James Herbert though, and especially not if it is his first book, The Rats, which is the first thing I thought of when I read about the Bradford giant rodents.
Incidentally, I love the fact that the Wikipedia page for the [...]
Tags: Books
Perfect moments
July 28th, 2010 · No Comments · Life
There is one little part of the Amsterdam ‘city-pick’ book that has kept returning to my thoughts ever since I read it. A good example of how the best bits are by the lesser-known writers. This is the particular passage that has been haunting me, from the diary of Simona Luff1
No. Me neither. [↩]
Piet Koopt Hoge Schoenen
July 27th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
I have just finished reading Amsterdam from the ‘City-Pick series of books, which I got through Amazon’s Vine programme. It is a collection of snippets from literature about the city. I must have visited Amsterdam more than anywhere other city except Paris and can find my way round it better than anywhere except London, but [...]
Tags: Amsterdam·Books·Netherlands·Reviews·Vine
Devil in Disguise
July 15th, 2010 · No Comments · Life
One last Vine review to clear the backlog. This time it is Devil in Disguise by Julian Clary.
I enjoyed it on a couple of levels. Apart from the story, there was a more personal level of enjoyment which was an element of nostalgia. Molly ans Simon, the two main characters, met while at Goldsmiths which [...]
Obstacles to Young Love
July 14th, 2010 · No Comments · Life
Still clearing the backlog of Amazon Vine reviews, here is what I thought about Obstacles to Young Love by the legendary David Nobbs.
The Invisible Gorilla
July 13th, 2010 · No Comments · Life
I read a lot of books in the last month or two, mainly re-reading all thirteen Christopher Brookmyre novels, but also reading some new Amazon Vine books, leaving me with a bit of a backlog of reviews to write.
First off is The Invisible Gorilla by Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons, one of those popular psychology/behavioural [...]
Young Sherlock Holmes
May 11th, 2010 · No Comments · Life
Having had a recent bad experience with a shoddy Sherlock Holmes film, I was more than a little wary about reading a novel about the exploits of Holmes as a teenager – Young Sherlock Holmes: Death Cloud by Andrew Lane, which I got through Amazon’s Vine program.
Fortunately the book turned out to be so much [...]
Tags: Books·Horsham·Reviews·Sherlock Holmes·Vine
