Tag: Book Review
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The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
Between life and death, there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices. In The Midnight Library, Nora Seed finds herself faced with this decision. Faced with…
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The Angel’s Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
I accidentally bumped into The Shadow of the Wind and fell in love with Carlos Ruiz Zafón’s writing. Shadow is the first of the series The Cemetery of Forgotten Books. The second one is The Angel’s Game. A writer never forgets the first time he accepted a few coins or a word of praise in…
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The Dutch House by Anne Patchett
The story is about a dysfunctional family who lived in The Dutch House. Cyril Conroy gets rich, buys the house, and surprises his wife Elna, who does like the enormous house. She leaves her family to go to India to help the poor. Maeve gets sick with diabetes after Elna left her, and although she…
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28 Summers by Elin Hilderbrand
When Mallory Blessing’s son, Link, receives deathbed instructions from his mother to call a number on a slip of paper in her desk drawer, he’s not sure what to expect. But he certainly does not expect Jake McCloud to answer. It’s the late spring of 2020 and Jake’s wife, Ursula DeGournsey, is the frontrunner in…
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Adultery by Paulo Coelho
I was a reader of Paulo Coelho’s book lightyears ago, but after reading many things about witchery in his books, I stopped.
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The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Barcelona, 1945: A city slowly heals from its war wounds, and Daniel, an antiquarian book dealer’s son who mourns the loss of his mother, finds solace in a mysterious book entitled The Shadow of the Wind, by one Julian Carax. But when he sets out to find the author’s other works, he makes a shocking…
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Day 9 – Turtles All the Way Down and Other Books
Since we have less work and more offs, I had more time to read. And I take only two to three evenings to finish a book so here are the recent three.
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Instructions on How to Disappear by Gabriela Lee
In Gabriela Lee’s first book, Instructions on How to Disappear and other stories, she has meticulously and intelligently reworked numerous genre tropes. Set in future manila, a gleaming metropolis where one’s paranoia may not be exactly unfounded and whose lashing sings tribute to Philip K. Dick, “Stations” takes on the ethical trappings of high technology…
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All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
For Marie-Laure, blind since the age of six, the world is full of mazes. The miniature of a Paris neighbourhood, made by her father to teach her the way home. The microscopic layers wihin the invaluable diamond that her father guards in the Museum of National History. The walled city by the sea, where the…
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Book Review : Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift. By morning, the millionaire Simon Ratchett lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. One of his fellow passengers must be the murderer. Isolated by the storm and with a killer in their…
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Book Review : Truly, Madly, Guilty by Liane Moriarty
Six responsible adults. Three cute kids. One small dog. What Could possibly go wrong?
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Book Review : The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
The Sympathizer is a blistering exploration of identity, politics and America, wrought in electric prose. The narrator, a Vietnamese army captain, is a man of divided loyalties, a half-French, half-Vietnamese communist sleeper agent in America after the end of the Vietnam War. A powerful story of love and friendship, and a gripping espionage novel, The…
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