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| 24.08.2001 Frank McCourt, "Tis" - The sequel to "Angela's Ashes", picking the story up in New York, were the last book ended. More of the same, just the grown-up version. Great writing, the hick from the Irish backwater is utterly believable, as funny as the first. Worth reading, although I lost interesst a bit towards the end. 10.08.2001 Barbara Kingsolver, "Prodigal Summer" - on life, death and how to vaccinate goats - what a great book! I loved it, great characters, great story, one of those were you feel sad that it comes to an end. Even better than the last one of hers that I read, "The Poisonwood Bible", which was also really good! Synopsis from Amazon: From an isolated mountain cabin, Deanna Wolfe, a reclusive wildlife biologist, is caught off-guard by a young hunter who changes utterly her self-assured, solitary life. Lusa Maluf Landowski finds herself unexpectedly marooned on her husband's farm where she must declare or lose her attachment to the land. Garnett Walker and Nannie Rawley, a pair of elderly, feuding neighbours, tend their respective farms and wrangle about God, pesticides, and the possibilities of a future neither of them expected. Over the course of one humid summer in the Appalachian mountains these characters discover their connections to one another and to the flora and fauna with which they share their place in the world. 01.08.2001 Stephen King, "On Writing" - on what makes Stephen King tick, where he comes from, his tips on writing - not only for people with a manuscript in the bottom drawer of the bedsite table, but a entertaining read for all fans... |
| Books, books and books......... |
| ...what do you mean, 3 links to the same provider aren't enough!!? :-) |
| My all-time favourites... Some dazzling scenery, adventure, heaving bossoms, surprising plot-twists, suspense, good-looking heroes, really mean bad guys, conspiracies and all that after 8 hours at work and low brainpower? Fear not, Wilbur Smith will keep you entertained for hours! Or perhaps some crime busting in ancient Rome? Try Lindsey Davis' hero Marcus Didius Falco, always good for a chuckle and you won't figure out who's dunnit until the very last page. More classic crime? Sorry, Agatha, but you are boring the pants off me! Try some Dorothy Sayers instead, "Gaudy Night" is one of my favourites..... A bit more up-tp-date version? Elizabeth George is American, but you would never guess, true British crime novels.... Stephen King - not only horror, but some genuinely good story telling, too! Not enough horror? Try Dean Koontz..... Oh, by the way, a neat mixture between Wilbur and the above two: Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child. With every single installment I was up all night, absolutely impossible to put down! Try "Riptide"! |
| My current Top Ten: |
| Barbara Kingsolver - Prodigal Summer Frank McCourt - 'Tis Matt Dickinson - High risk Stephen King - On Writing William Dalrymple - From the Holy Mountain David Guterson - East of the Mountains Ruri Pilgrim - Fish of the Seto Inland Sea Stephen King - Insomnia Gregory Benford - Cosm Matthew Reilly - Temple |
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| What I want to read, but have not gotten round to yet...... Harper Lee - To kill a mockingbird John Steinbeck - Grapes of wrath Brett Lott - Jewel David Scott Milton - The fat lady sings Richard Yates - Anything I can find..... What I have been reading in..... July 2001 June 2001 May 2001 April & March 2001 Back to my current bookpage.... |
| And, like everybody else, I occasionaly come accross a book that I do not like. Have a look at the books that I gave up on...... |
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| .........in August 2001 |
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