Book Reviews Blog

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Monday 28th March 2011

Rated by Roger, on 28 Mar 2011




Friday 11th February 2011

Reviewed by Roger, on 11 Feb 2011

Review of "The Heart of Darkness"

Surprisingly un- explicit, story told as first person narration within a framing device (waiting for the tide to turn) but we never get to know Kurtz or what he has been doing at all - everything by allusion and hints, the dying "The horror, the horror" words are left entirely to the reader's imagination to fill in (room 101?)



Wednesday 2nd February 2011

Rated by Roger, on 02 Feb 2011




Saturday 4th December 2010

Summary :
Wonderful story of child of Mexican mother and American father growing up through first half of ...

Reviewed by Roger, on 04 Dec 2010

Review of "The Lacuna"

read on Kindle. Fantastic story, really enjoyed it, deeply involving and nteresting as well as connected to other aspects of life - eg I had forgotten that when on holiday in San Fransisco in 1999 we had stumbled into Diego Rivera's studio and exhibition of his works.



Wednesday 18th August 2010

2009

The Help

Author : Kathryn Stockett

Summary :
Jackson, Mississippi, 1962. ...

Reviewed by Roger, on 18 Aug 2010

Review of "The Help"

Written in three voices (maids Aibleen and Minny and the autor Skeeter) very engrosing and absorbing story. Paints a clear picture of life both as a maid and also as an independent minded person growing in a stifling environment of friends and conventional expectations and not knowing what to want.