Holiday books 2022
A short post about the books I read while on a two-week summer vacation.
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A short post about the books I read while on a two-week summer vacation.
Wolf Hall is a Man Booker Prize winning historical novel which treats the reader to a highly historically-accurate yet fictional account of the rapid rise to power of Henry VIII’s chief advisor Thomas Cromwell.
Agency can be considered a sequel to The Peripheral in that it reuses the fanciful time-hopping remote technology and idea of parallel alternate realities.
A short ramble about Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel about a solar-powered android called Klara looking after a sickly girl called Josie.
Miller’s book presents us with a captivating rendering of Circe, daughter of the sun god Helios and the ocean nymph Perse, and who features in Homer’s Odyssey.
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote / The Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith / The Castle by Franz Kafka
Dashiel Hammet – The Thin Man / Ursula K. Le Guin – The Lathe of Heaven / Andrey Kurkov – Penguin Lost
A post about my Top 5 books this year with some spoilers and links to longer reviews.
A short appreciation of Cornwell’s 1993 novel, the first in the Starbuck Chronicles series set during the American Civil War.
A short appreciation of Alan Moore’s graphic (sometimes very graphic) novels – Providence, Neonomicon and the rather better known – From Hell.