The Graft by Martina Cole
Nick Leary, a rich businessman who makes most of his money with shady deals and who doesn’t shrink back from using violence to get what he wants, is one night woken by strange noises in his home. When he discovers an intruder with a gun he attacks him with a baseball bat. The intruder is discovered to be a local teen and small-time criminal who dies a few days later in the hospital. This is such a dumb book that I can hardly believe it. […]
Later by Stephen King
I really had a good time with this one. I finished it over two months ago now, but unlike my experience with Eternals, I remember it vividly and fondly. I just have one tiny beef with it, and it’s a beef I’ve recently had with King before, but more on that later. Jamie Conklin is our narrator, a kid who can see dead people (King wisely acknowledges the Haley Joel Osment shaped elephant in the room). It’s a talent he (and his mom) have mostly […]
The name of the rose by Umberto Eco
The searcher by Tana French
The push by Ashley Audrain
The hunting party by Lucy Foley
Snow crash by Neal Stephenson
Ready player two by Ernest Cline
Tender is the flesh by Agustina Bazterrica
My final review dump and then I’ll be all caught up! Woohoo! These books are about the past, the present and the future. The name of the rose by Umberto Eco Eco is my dad’s favourite author. He’s read all of his books, some of them probably several times. I, on the other hand, had never read anything by Eco before. I had seen bits of the film years ago that had intrigued me enough to want to read the book but for some reason […]
The Marsh King's Daughter by Karen Dionne
I’m not the biggest reader of thrillers, but my mother bought this for herself at a train station once, it looked interesting, so I “borrowed” it. Helena Pelletier is a woman with a dark past, her mother was kidnapped by her father as a child and kept in a cabin somewhere deep in the Michigan Upper Peninsula’s marshes. For the first twelve years of Helena’s life, she has no contact to the outside world, only knows her controlling, sadistic father, her shellshocked mother and a […]
In the Company of Killers by Bryan Christy
This is a work of fiction. The characters, scenes, and oplot are invented. Truth may be stranger than fiction, but fiction can be more illuminating. What is not invented are the rapidly escalating threats around the world to journalists and other truth seekers; the dangers of privatized defense and intelligence services, of divisive entertainment masquerading as journalism, and of the rising surveillance state. The excerpt above from Bryan Christy’s Acknowledgement at the end of this novel tells you everything you need to know about the […]
