Ramblings of a Bookworm
Posted in Book Reviews, P D James on Nov 29th, 2008
This is a Cordelia Gray detective story first published in 1972 and I thought I’d seen it as a TV drama some time ago. I checked on Wipedia and saw that there were two adaptations, one in 1982 and a series made in 1997, with Helen Baxendale as Cordelia, which is the one I remembered. [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, Georges Simenon on Nov 27th, 2008
Maigret leaves a rainy Paris for the balmy Mediterranan island of Porquerolles, three miles from the French coast, where he investigates the murder of Marcellin (also known as Marcel Picaud), a thug, drunkard, thief and pimp - in other words a ”mauvais garcon”. He is accompanied by Mr Pyke, a British detective who is shadowing Maigret to [...]
Posted in Georges Simenon, Jonathan Dimbleby, Teaser Tuesdays on Nov 25th, 2008
The Teaser Tuesday (hosted by Should be Reading) rules are:
Grab your current read.
Let the book fall open to a random page.
Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.
You also need to share the title of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” from … that way people [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, W Somerset Maugham on Nov 24th, 2008
This is the third novel by W Somerset Maugham that I’ve read and the most enjoyable one. I did enjoy The Moon and Sixpence and Cakes and Ale but I think The Painted Veil is even better.
The idea for this story came to Maugham after reading in Dante’s Inferno the story of Pia whose husband suspected her [...]
Posted in Books, Sunday Salon, Victor Hugo on Nov 23rd, 2008
What a gloomy day outside. I knew it was wet when my cat rubbed round my legs first thing this morning. Looking out of the window I could seen a fine sprinkling of snow. That’s all gone now and the rain has set in. What better thing to do than read Les Misérables for a [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, Michael Gilbert, What's In a Name on Nov 22nd, 2008
The title of this spy mystery book sets the scene; after the fine weather comes the snow. Set in Lienz in the Austrian Tyrol the onset of bad weather concides with an alarming sequence of events. Bald Kommt der Schnee:
In Lienz we call this Bellermanswoch. The Bellerman is the old man who goes round after [...]
My eight year old granddaughter is very creative. She loves drawing and painting and has won prizes for her pictures. She also loves reading and writing. She has written lots of stories on the computer and she sent me this one recently. I hope you like it. I just love those tips at the end!
The Adventure [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, Celebrate the Author, Mark Twain on Nov 20th, 2008
I was struck by the Notice “By Order of the Author” preceding this story:
Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.
So, of course this alerted me to the fact [...]
Posted in Books, Don DeLillo, Teaser Tuesdays on Nov 18th, 2008
The Teaser Tuesday rules are:
Grab your current read.
Let the book fall open to a random page.
Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.
You also need to share the title of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” from … that way people can have some great book [...]
Posted in Awards, Michael Gilbert on Nov 15th, 2008
Thank you to Zetor over on Mog’s Blog who has given me this award.
Here are the rules:
Open the closest book to you, not your favourite or most intellectual book, but the book closest to you at the moment. Turn to page 56…. Write out the fifth sentence, as well as two to five sentences following there. Then [...]
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