The first half of this book was a real slog for a number of reasons that all kind of boiled down to - it's yet another novel about a young white boy figuring out life in the shadow of World War II. At this point, I have lost count of the number of these I have read and they all blur together, and … [Read more]
You’re Not Over The Hill If You Can Still Match Wits With German Spies
This is the year that I will finish reading Agatha Christie, and what that means is that I have just a few left, and the ones that are left are not her best work. I long ago read And Then There Were None, along with all of the rest of the Poirot mysteries. I've finished Superintendent Battle and … [Read more]
Biking in a Winter Wonderland
The Chirri and Chirra books are surreal. You can hear the translation as sometimes the wording does not flow naturally on the ears. You will enjoy the story, but you probably should suspend belief. If you are looking for realism, Kaya Doi's books are probably not what you are looking for. However, … [Read more]
as long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking
The problem with my local library is I go in for one book and then see ten others I’ve been intending to read, and then they let me have them for free. And so I finally got around to reading Orlando by Virginia Woolf. The actual plot is pretty well known, and it turns out I could have … [Read more]