Book Reviews

A list of book reviews over the years:

1. The Blood is the Life:  Ranting about “Dracula” by Bram Stoker
2. Vernon God Little  - DBC Pierre
3. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie – Alan Bradley
4. The Uncommon Reader – Alan Bennett
5. The Enchantress of Florence – Salman Rushdie
6. Po-on:  The Rosales Saga, Book 1 – F. Sionil Jose
7. The Magicians – Lev Grossman
8. The Book Thief – Markus Zusak
9. The Messenger – Markus Zusak
10. Signed, Sealed, Delivered:  A continuation of my review of “The Messenger” – Markus Zusak
11. Les Miserables – The Adventure Begins – Victor Hugo
12. Fantine:  A continuation of the “Les Miserables” review – Victor Hugo
13. Segue:  An update about reading “The Hunger Games” Trilogy – Suzanne Collins
14. To Kill a Mockingjay:  A review of “Mockingjay” – Suzanne Collins
15. A Murder Most Foul:  Graphic Novel “Murder Mysteries” – Neil Gaiman
16. A Tale of Two Novels:  A combined review of “Les Miserables” and “Let the Right One In” – Victor Hugo and John Ajvide Lindqvist
17. Last Reads of 2010:  A combined review of “A Thousand Splendid Suns” by Khaled Hosseini and “Haroun and the Sea of Stories” by Salman Rushdie.
18. Good Omens – Neil Gaiman and Terry Prachett (2011)
19. Rashomon – Ryunosuke Akutagawa
20. In a Grove – Ryunosuke Akutagawa
21. The Geography of Bliss – Eric Weiss
22. The Gathering – Anne Enright
23. Room – Emma Donoghue
24. The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
25. Un Lun Dun – China Mieville
26. Disgrace – J.M. Coetzee
27. Waiter Rant - Steve Dublanica
28. The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood
29. When You Play the Game of Thrones… - A review of A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
30. A Clash of Kings - George R.R. Martin – 2nd book in A Song of Ice and Fire Series.
31. The Psychopath Test:  A Story of Madness – Jon Ronson
32. A Storm of Swords - George R.R. Martin – 3rd book in A Song of Ice and Fire Series.
33. Guidebooks:  To Read or Not to Read - A review of Frommer’s France 2008.
34. The Interpretation of Murder - Jed Rubenfeld
35. A Feast For Crows - George R.R. Martin – 4th book in A Song of Ice and Fire Series.
36. The Perks of Being a Wallflower – Stephen Chbosky
37. Three Tales by Italo Calvino:  The Cloven Viscount – Book 1 of the Our Ancestors Trilogy by Italo Calvino.
38. Skippy Dies - Paul Murray
39. At The Stroke of Midnight – Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
40. 2666 – Roberto Bolano (2012)
41. A Dance with Dragons - George R.R. Martin.  Book 5 of A Song of Ice and Fire
42. A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
43. Making Sense of The Sense of an Ending – The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
44. A Brief Wondrous Tale by Junot Diaz – The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
45. Amster-damn! - Amsterdam by Ian Mcewan
46. Daytripper – Fabio Moon and Gabriel Ba
47. The Devil in the Details – A review of The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov.
48. The Imperfectionists – Tom Rachman
49. In The Woods – Tana French
50. Wolf Hall – Hilary Mantel
51. The Sweet Life in Paris – David Lebovitz
52. The Book of Lost Things – John Connolly
53. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet – David Mitchell
54. Black Swan Green – David Mitchell
55. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers – Mary Roach
56. Bring Up The Bodies – Hilary Mantel
57. The Name of the Wind – Patrick Rothfuss
58. Ready Player One - Ernest Cline
59. The Devil in the White City – Erik Larson
60. Cloud Atlas at a Glance – A flowchart to describe David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas.
61. Arrakis – Dune – Desert Planet – Frank Herbert
62. A Flight of Angels – Holly Black, et. al.
63. 1Q84 (Part I, II, III) - Haruki Murakami
64. Gone Girl (In Sixty Seconds) - Gillian Flynn (2013)
65. Death Comes to Pemberley - P.D. James
66. Don’t Speak About Red Sorghum – Red Sorghum by Mo Yan
67. Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami
68. Revenge – Yoko Ogawa
69. Sitting at the Cat’s Table – A review of The Cat’s Table by Michael Ondaatje
70. I Spy…:Two Tales of Espionage and Conspiracy – A review of The Spy Who Came in From the Cold by John Le Carre
71. A Perfect Spy - John Le Carre
72. The Tiger’s Wife – Tea Obreht