It took a few tries to get into this book, and, even now, it took the character of Fermín to get me more eager to read, to keenly wait for what was going to happen. The story line itself was wonderful, from the cemetery of forgotten books to the fate of the novelist, who seems […]
The companion book of the husband’s story — the same days, partly the same events, the other half of the shared history. And shows how differently the same event can be seen, how differently the same people can be looked at from another point of view, and also, while different, the love is same between […]
Jack Bowman only wants to have quiet life, but during the time when his wife Brenda is away in Philadelphia, it turns out to be anýthing but. Shiedls, one of literature’s great losses, manages to make these days of ordinary looking life something special, worth reading and living with, every minute of it, with characters […]
A heavy book with some pretty heavy issues; why do civilisations collapse, and can anything be done prevent it? Diamond doesn’t claim he has all the answers, but he does ask a few rather uncomfortable questions, especially to a first worlder reader even now overusing the resources, and the book will definitely haunt this reader […]
Like the lives of the Chance sisters, this novel is sheer fun — and fun to read. Also impossible to describe and/or review it in a few lines, with all its twins, identical and fraternal, its marriages, some lucky, at least for a time, some not so, and the theatrical London behind it all, living […]