But unfortunately we all know that SMeyer is not a good enough writer to be able to pull that one off…
I’m seriously thinking about ordering this t-shirt, though.
The Only Way I Would Ever Pick Up a Twilight Novel again
T13 – My reading year 2008 – part 1
Just like I did last January for 2007, I’d like to showcase a few of the books I have read last year. And I might as well do it in the form of a T13.
I managed to read 122 books in 2008. That’s 25 less than 2007 and I can’t even say why. The fact [...]
My latest haul from Bookmooch
A nice catch in today’s mail. Isn’t it great? Five books, three of them as good as brand new – and they didn’t cost me a penny, only a couple of points on Bookmooch. I just love it.
These are all books I requested from the same Bookmoocher, so naturally they all arrived together. A couple [...]
Christopher Moore “Fluke”
This was my first book by this author, about whom I have heard many good things. Looks like this wasn’t the best one to start with, because it didn’t exactly turn me into a raving fan.
I’m not saying it was a bad book. It certainly had its funny parts and the story had a good [...]
Nevil Shute “On the Beach”
This is one of those books I had on my wishlist for a long time, ever since I developed a taste for dystopian fiction. I understand this story is one of the classics of the genre, written in the “paranoid fifties” when everyone was afraid of the world being blown up by a nuclear war. [...]
Michel Faber “The Crimson Petal and the White”
Now here we have a book that gripped me from the beginning and deserves to be called unputdownable. At 830 pages it is not a story to be read in a couple of hours. It took me the better part of 2 weeks to read it, even though I am not especially busy right now. [...]
Alexander McCall Smith “At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances”
Can a book with such a wonderfully quirky title be in any way bad? I’m sad to say, yes it can. This one certainly is. Bad, that is. Abysmally so, in my eyes. This book is by far the most un-funny and boring book I have read in quite a long while (and with the [...]
