0154 | The Long Goodbye – Raymond Chandler
Context: more audio while working in the kitchens at Horsleys Green. REVIEW Immediately after finishing the Big Sleep, I went straight on to listen to this. I was disappointed in…
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0153 | The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler
Context: Listened to this in a day or two while working in the Wycliffe kitchen. REVIEW The film is an absolute classic. In fact the book made me want to…
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0145 | Dreams from My Father – Barack Obama
Context: Read this when we moved into a lovely house in Piddington. REVIEW My aunt-in-law packaged this one up for me for Christmas thinking I’d like to read it. She…
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0106 | The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen
Context: Read this while staying at my in-laws where I gave the spare room a much needed seeing-to. REVIEW This book I liked. It’s the story of your average disfunctional…
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0067 | Walden ~ Thoreau
REVIEW This started out really well with some very erudite remarks about the way the material world, if you, Atlas-like, manage to find a position to observe it correctly from,…
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0065 | Underworld ~ Don DeLillo
REVIEW Having got to the end of this finally last night, I can be very glad of one thing: I can speed-read. This has to be one of the most…
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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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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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0048 | Cloudsplitter ~ Russell Banks
REVIEW This is a huge book at just over 750 pages. But, while it is an interesting insight into life and events running up to the start of the American…
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0038 | The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
If you enjoyed this book, you’re going to love the map. REVIEW I’ve not read a book with a more apt title for a while. This is a book about…
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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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0033 | Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
If you enjoyed this book, you’re going to love the map. REVIEW From page 1 until I ran headlong into the back cover, this was one of the most engaging…
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0028 | Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
REVIEW Exquisitely crafted, this short novel is a classic for a very good reason. At the start of the book, it’s mice that succumb to powers they cannot comprehend or…
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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…