Book Review: We Need To Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
Posted on Sunday, December 4th, 2011
Whenever a film is made of a book I cringe a little. I have very seldom seen a film that is as good as, let alone better than, the original book. I have taken to avoiding film adaptations of books, and whenever a new movie in this genre appears I resolutely look away, or in [...]
continue readingBook review: Before the Frost by Henning Mankell
Posted on Sunday, December 12th, 2010
Henning Mankell has been busy lately writing about the recent Swedish election and experimenting with new thriller formulas such as his latest novel, The Man from Beijing.
continue readingBook review: Broken by Karin Fossum
Posted on Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010
Karin Fossum’s Broken is blessed with weird locations, insightful art knowledge and a fantastic heroin addict personality. On the downside, the main character, Alvar Eide, is a tad dull and the plot is thin.
continue readingBook review: Deliver Us from Evil
Posted on Wednesday, May 5th, 2010
David Baldacci was born in Virginia, in 1960. He earned a Bachelor degree of Arts in political science from Virginia Commonwealth University and a law degree from the University of Virginia. Baldacci practiced law for nine years in Washington, D.C., both as a trial and corporate attorney.
continue readingBook review: The lost symbol
Posted on Friday, April 30th, 2010
Dan Brown’s ‘The Lost Symbol’ was without any doubt the most hyped book of 2009. It broke all records for first-day sales of adult fiction, selling more than one million copies in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K.
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