0184 | Delivering the Goods – Colin Swatridge
Context: Moved my desk to a doorway to get a better wireless connection while reading this. REVIEW The latest in a series of books I’m reading at the moment to…
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0180 | The Information | Martin Amis
Context: Finished this off just after a shopping trip to Tesco’s where I got two free blocks of cheese (always complain politely!) REVIEW Recently, I read The Old Devils by…
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0155 | The Old Devils – Kingsley Amis
REVIEW Who names their child Kingsley? I mean, honestly, who does? It sounds like the name you’d give a Basset Hound. Anyway, name apart, this was a terrible novel. It…
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0138 | The Newton Letter – John Banville
Context: My dad presented me with this and I read it while staying with him. REVIEW This pamphlet of a novella wasn’t anything remarkable. Never read any Banville but from…
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0130 | One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Context: Failed to finish this as I was working through the final modules of my survey course. REVIEW Pants, pants, pants, pants, pants, pants, pants, pants, pants, pants, pants, pants,…
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0122 | American Pastoral – Philip Roth
Context: Finished this off on my bed as a migraine kicked in. REVIEW It’s going to be a while before I read another “classic American novel.” One of the few…
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0113 | Under the Net – Iris Murdoch
Context: Read most of this in the forest at the end of my mum’s garden in Portugal. REVIEW Sometimes I read a book, get to the end and wonder why…
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0098 | Deceived on Purpose – Warren
Context: Got this for my birthday and read it to the sound of demolition work over the road from our house in the UK. REVIEW In 2002, Rick Warren published…
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0093 | Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
Context: finished this off on the ferry from Turkey to the Greek island of Samos. The final book of four gothic novels that I’ve been reading over the last few…
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0087 | Kiss & Tell – Alain de Botton
Context: Finished this in a day on the Trans-Mongolian railway somewhere around Novosibirsk.REVIEW I’ve read, and greatly enjoyed, Status Anxiety and The Romantic Movement by de Botton and I honestly didn’t…
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0077 | Jazz – Tony Morrison
Context: Read this in a day in an easy chair. REVIEW I thought this was pants actually.
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0075 | Foundation – Isaac Asimov
Context: Audiobook I listened to in a couple of days before going to Sri Lanka. REVIEW This gave me unpleasant flashbacks to Atlas Shrugged with it’s paranoid cast of characters…
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0071 | A Tale of Two Cities ~ Charles Dickens
REVIEW Now I love Dickens but this wasn’t my cup of tea at all. What I really love is the amazing characters he creates. This book disappointed in that respect.
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0053 | Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas ~ Hunter Thompson
REVIEW Definitely a product of it’s time and country. Having visited Las Vegas twice now (once I had no choice, once I wanted to see why I’d been taken there),…
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0045 | The Castle of Otranto ~ Horace Walpole
If you enjoyed this book, you’re going to love the map. REVIEW What a romp… but what a tragedy.
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0035 | Sex, Romance and the Glory of God – C.J. Mahaney
I have no idea where this book came from. I just discovered it there yesterday so thought I’d give it a go. Mrs Arukiyomi must have picked it up at…
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0030 | Journey to the Interior of the Earth – Jules Verne
REVIEW: Narrated by one of the three main characters, a young upstart whose zeal makes up for his naivety, this novel is fairly simplistic. In fact, the great irony of…
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