0079 | Captain Corelli’s Mandolin ~ de Bernières
Context: Took on the plane to Sri Lanka with me. Nearly finished it by the time we’d arrived. REVIEW I really liked this actually. I wasn’t prepared to having seen…
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0078 | Steppenwolf – Herman Hesse
Context:Read this in a day at the Dutch House, Bandarawela, Sri Lanka REVIEW Hot on the heels of Jazz by Toni Morrison, my brain was reeling from all the metaphysical…
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0074 | Memoirs of a Geisha ~ Arthur Golden
Context: Audiobook which I listened to on the way to and from private business classes.REVIEW Poetic, intimate and moving at times, this is a good book. However, the novel is…
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0072 | The World According to Garp ~ John Irving
Book in Context: The wife was making Christmas cards in the room when I finished this. REVIEW A readable social commentary with occasional witty moments, this was a book I’d…
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0062 | Junky ~ William Burroughs
REVIEW After battling my way through Naked Lunch, I wasn’t sure what to expect from my second Burroughs novel. It wasn’t half as bad though thankfully.
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0060 | Uncle Tom’s Cabin ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
REVIEW Finally got through what was one of the best librivox.org recordings I’ve heard. Coming only a couple of months after Cloudsplitter, I don’t think I was really ready for…
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0058 | Lady Chatterley’s Lover ~ D.H.Lawrence
REVIEW My second Lawrence book and he is turning into one of my favourite writers. This didn’t disappoint. In fact, in places, this unexpurgated 1928 edition downright startled me.
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0052 | The Devil & Miss Prym ~ Paulo Coelho
REVIEW Now I liked this, I really did. Wasn’t expecting to because I’d hated Veronika Decides to Die. But this was different.
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0051 | High Fidelity ~ Nick Hornby
REVIEW Ironically, this book could have been entitled About a Boy because it is in fact about a boy. In fact, it’s about all boys and what makes them tick.
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0034 | The Music of Chance – Paul Auster
If you enjoyed this book, you’re going to love the map. REVIEW Remeniscent of Steinbeck and Kerouac, Auster has captured something of the remnant of the beat generation in this…
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0032 | Notes from the Underground – Fyodor Dostoevsky
Read in 51 daily installments from dailylit.com REVIEW: Narrated in the first person by a socially disfunctional philosopher, this is a rollercoaster ride on the rails of insecurity. Plagued by…
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0016 | Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton
Read this in 42 installments from dailylit.com REVIEW: Took a while to get into but once Wharton sets up the conflict in this story, you can’t put it down. The…
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