I first heard about Herman Koch back in 2014 when I read his bestselling novel The Dinner, which I quite enjoyed. Last year I learned that he had published a (relatively) new novel, Dear Mr. M, which, I knew I just had to read. I guess Dear Mr. M can be classified as metafiction, as…
I’m probably one of the last people to read Daphne du Maurier’s famous suspense romance novel, Rebecca. I’ve known about it for ages and it’s been recommended to me by a lot of people. The book itself was published in 1938, which was a surprise because I always thought it was published sometime in the 1980’s.…
The boys in blue are back again in Alex Grecian‘s The Black Country (2013), the 2nd book in his Scotland Yard’s Murder Squad Series. At the request of the local constable, Detective Inspector Day, Sergeant Hammersmith, and Dr. Kingsley are sent to Blackhampton on loan from Scotland Yard to solve the mystery behind the disappearance,…
The Yard is the first book in Alex Grecian’s Scotland Yard’s Murder Squad Series about the hardworking members of Scotland Yard in the late 1880s. Set in chaotic London in the aftermath of Jack the Ripper’s unsolved murders where police morale is low, while the public’s distrust is high, Walter Day, a Constable from Devon,…
“He wasn’t talking. He was looking from the window of the car all the way…” Ever since Kafka on the Shore, I’ve been in a kind of a reading slump. I’ve had some life-changing things happen to me since too, so I guess Murakami is not completely to blame. The last 2 novels I read…
What better way to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Pride and Prejudice than by posting my review of P.D. James’ 2011 novel, Death Comes to Pemberley. People can’t resist reading, not to mention, writing, about Elizabeth Bennett and Fitzwilliam Darcy and what their life together might have been like after the events in Jane Austen’s Pride…
Gone Girl is…how can I describe it? To say that it’s a 2012 suspense/mystery/thriller by Gillian Flynn about a married couple would make it sound a bit boring and might turn people off from reading it. But to say any more might spoil it for them…. The story in a nutshell: Amy and Nick Dunne…
The Misanthropologist 