Book Reviews Blog

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Tuesday 21st April 2020

Summary :
From the Chinese Cultural Revolution to an alien invasion fleet due to arrive in 2450.

Reviewed by Roger, on 21 Apr 2020

Review of "The Three Body Problem"

Opening with a stunning picture of the intensity of the cultural revolution and then through its consequences. The plot contains a number of reveals like a nest of russian dolls or peeling away the layers of an onion, but in reverse. Philosophical and ecological sci-fi in a quasi-socialist context



Monday 3rd February 2020

Rated by rogerco, on 03 Feb 2020




Wednesday 1st January 2020

2000

The Mind’s Eye

Van Veeteren Book 1

Author : Hakan Nesser

Rated by rogerco, on 01 Jan 2020




Monday 30th December 2019

Summary :
Exploring beneath the ground as a way of exploring deep time

Reviewed by rogerco, on 30 Dec 2019

Review Summary :
Fabulous bit of personal nature/ecology writing

Review of "Underland"

a collection of personal accounts of guided explorations to underground places, their meanings and the authors responses, woven together into a narrative about our relationship to time and the world.




Saturday 30th November 2019

Summary :
Woman and her dog spend the winter in isolated cottage on Exmoor on the run from her demons

Reviewed by Roger, on 30 Nov 2019

Review of "The Living and The Dead in Winsford"

Very good read. In the first third you really get inside her head and build some empathy. In the middle third some questions start to arise - some of which are never fully resolved (the Polish hire car, the disappearing dog, the seer Mark Britton - and when it happens the twist at the end seemed a little arbitrary, but thinking about it it was the only possible ending and better than the alternatives.