Ramblings of a Bookworm
Posted in Book Reviews, Books, Challenges, Chunkster Challenge, Kate Morton, Sunday Salon on Jul 6th, 2008
Last August I read The House at Riverton by Kate Morton and thought it was one of the best books I’d read in 2007. So it was with great anticipation that I started to read The Forgotten Garden. It starts off well, with a little girl in London in 1913 on a boat bound for [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, Books, Challenges, Chunkster Challenge, Markus Zusak on Jun 14th, 2008
I was not that keen on reading The Book Thief when I first heard about it. One reason, and this is quite contrary of me, I know, is that people were raving about it and that always makes me wonder whether a book can really live up to its reputation. The other reason was that I [...]
Posted in Books, Chunkster Challenge on Apr 15th, 2008
I know who the murderer is – I’ve finished Revelation!
I haven’t written anything on this blog since Saturday, partly because we’ve been staying with our son and his family and partly because I just had to finish reading Revelation. It’s the fourth book in the Matthew Shardlake series. The first three are Dissolution set in [...]
Posted in Books, Challenges, Chunkster Challenge, From the Stacks, What's In a Name on Jan 30th, 2008
The devastation, desolation and waste of war had me in tears as I was reading Winter In Madrid. I already knew from reading his 16th century crime thrillers that C. J. Sansom is a master storyteller and this book exceeded my expectations. It is an action packed thrilling war/spy story and also a moving love [...]
Posted in Books, Chunkster Challenge on Jan 5th, 2008
I’ve decided to sign up for another challenge to help me get through my TBR list. It’s to read big, fat books – or as the Challenge calls them ‘chunksters’. The books have to have 450+ pages and mine are well over that. The ones I have picked – but this may change [...]
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