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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs 4/5

This is one I'd been on the fence about for ages. Was finally convinced by posters on another forum that it was worth while.
I read it in one day. :)
Great combination of fantasy and quest by a teenage boy discovering his grandfather's true life. Murderous monsters and mysteries abound.
 
pontalba said:
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs 4/5

This is one I'd been on the fence about for ages. Was finally convinced by posters on another forum that it was worth while.
I read it in one day. :)
Great combination of fantasy and quest by a teenage boy discovering his grandfather's true life. Murderous monsters and mysteries abound.
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Glad you like it! Mr.Abc found it and asked me to request it for him, then insisted I'd like it too. Sometimes it's good and wise to listen to one's spouse.:flowers:
 
ricko said:
:DTo Beer Good:
You are one of the few that know what I'm talking about! Your cognitive responses make me want to read the book. There are no ambiguities in your short and concise reviews. Well done.
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Thank you! I try my best.

Petina Gappah, Elegy For Easterly. Short stories from a Zimbabwe struggling under political oppression, corruption, inflation, AIDS and poverty. Bleak, but still oddly hopeful in the way people carry on any way they can (the ones who survive, that is). Very much recommended. :star4:
 
Just finished The Woman in Black in Portuguese Language.. I give it :star5:

I got terrified .. I really recommend it to everyone :D
 
Ben Watt, Patient. A rock star memoir with a difference, focusing almost entirely on Watt's battle with autoimmune disease that almost cost him his life and his voice (and did cost him 85% of his lower intestine, which means he's doomed to a very limited diet for the rest of his life) but didn't cost him his music or the love of his life. Mostly picked it up because I used to rather like Everything But The Girl, but it's really a powerful story too - not the sobstory you might expect, more a very personal look from a few years' distance at how your mind and body cope with surviving major trauma, and superbly written. :star4:
 
and she was by Alison Gaylin :star4:

Interesting twist in that the main protagonist has a condition called Hyperthymestic Syndrome. Perfect and complete memory. Every detail, the time and place it took place, right down to the smells and general ambiance. Great for a detective, but pretty uncomfortable personally.
First in a series.
 
Pax said:
Just finished The Woman in Black in Portuguese Language.. I give it :star5:

I got terrified .. I really recommend it to everyone :D
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Yeah,Pax,I've read it and it's a classic ghost story. Have you seen the new film? Very good,almost as good as the book. :)


Neptune Crossing by Jeffrey A Carver. :star4: Really enjoyed this 'hard' sci-fi story set on Neptune's moon in which an alien uploads itself into the sub-conscious of a suitable human and together they must save Earth from destruction! :) Yeah,sounds naff but very well executed.
 
Peter Ackroyd, London: The Biography. Mostly stunning history of a very weird city, from before the Romans to the turn of the latest century. :star4:
 
The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry. Not the Scripture of the Bible, but an unfolding memoir by a 100-year old inmate of a mental institution as both she and her attending physician separately try to sort out her wavering memory of her confinement many many years ago. Interesting, until the not very surprising very end, when all questions are resolved very unimaginatively by the fortuitous discovery of hidden letters and long-unknown dusty hospital files. Hmph.
 
Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Devil On The Cross. By far the weakest Ngugi I've read. While it still has some of the same great characterisation and pissed-off political analysis as Petals Of Blood and Wizard Of The Crow, it far too often turns into something that reads more like a play than a novel, where characters representing various factions simply recite long monologues of Post-Colonial Marxism 101 at each other. The fact that he wrote it while imprisoned for political crimes (supposedly, the chapters are of varying length because he wrote it on whatever paper he managed to get a hold of - including toilet paper) probably explains that, the novel is more a call to action than a subtle allegory, but it doesn't necessarily make it a better book. The ending packs one hell of a punch, though. :star3: .
 
Michael Herr, Kubrick. Short (96 pages) and obviously personal book (should probably have been called Stanley), written shortly after Stanley Kubrick's death and largely in response to what was said about him then. Provides some interesting insights into Kubrick both as a person and a film maker, but Herr (screenwriter for Full Metal Jacket, among other things) seems a little too close to Kubrick and spends a little too much of the short book defending Kubrick and his last movie from criticism. Anyone know of a good critical study of Kubrick's films? :star3:
 
The Church on Foster Drive by Taylor Lime. It was a crime/romance novella on Kindle eBooks. Was a short and entertaining read. Good for summer.
 
Marx/Engels, The Communist Manifesto (audiobook). :star3: Important, groundbreaking, but already outdated by the time it was translated.
 
Five little pigs

Wee, wee, wee, I had the right murderer, but then I changed my mind; I shouldn't have. Mais voyons, I made a faux pas that Hercule never would have made. Now I'm talking gobbledegook! Once again, Agatha Christie entertains the reader with the great Belgian detective who lives in England and loves to speak French. This time Hercule Poirot relies on a little epistolary to solve this sixteen year old crime. I say faugh to the murderer in this 1943 novel. I cheated, the word faugh was used in this novel by Agatha and is a interjection meaning "expressed contempt".
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Isaac's storm

The deadliest natural disaster in America is told by one of the rising stars in literature, Erik Larson. The time is 1900, the place is Galveston, Texas, the event is a massive hurricane aimed directly at the Texas island. This storm will kill 6,000 to 12,000 people depending on which report you read over the next hundred years. How did it come without warning? Why didn't the newly formed U.S Weather Bureau take this storm seriously? This is the main theme of this non-fiction thriller.
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