The book club I belong to decided to read Queen Noor’s “Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life”, her autobiography, and this is a summary of our review. Part of the reason we chose this book was in the hopes that it would be a more accessible way of learning more about that part [...]
There seem to be as many philosophies about how to bring up children successfully as there are parents, which fact you tend not to discover until you are a parent yourself. And then you have to hope that your philosophy is reasonably congruent with that of the other parent and/or caregivers in your child’s [...]
A review of Nadeem Aslam’s “Maps for Lost Lovers”.
A review of Mark Haddon’s “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time”
The bookclub decided to read Heinlein’s masterpiece — the brilliant spectacular and incredibly popular novel (quote from the back cover of the Ace Science Fiction edition, published in 1987). The book Stranger in a Strange Land hasn’t quite stood the test of time (assuming it ever did match up to the breathless praise). A couple [...]
Kate Atkinson’s “Emotionally Weird” (Amazon link link, Powells link) is another bookclub selection, and is perhaps not the easiest book to write about. As befits the title, the entire book is weird both in plot and in construction, and at times feels a little over-clever, as if parts were introduced as some sort of game [...]
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