In anticipation of the Best Book Bazar Ever, I bought no new books!

I read three, however:
Levin, Waltraut: "Nordische Göttersagen" ***
You know how everyone in a specific corner of the internet is kind of nuts about Loki, right? As played by Tom Hiddleston in the movie Thor, obviously. Well, apparently, Loki once got pregnant by a horse. That's all I ( Read more... )

Book Title: "Lady Audley's Secret"
Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Page Count: 362
First Published: 1862
Rating: superfunk - golden - sweet - blah - superblah - blergh - goatfood

One of the best-selling novels of the Victorian age, a scrumptious combination of detective novel, sensation novel, shilling shocker and romance. I loved it, of course, but I ( Read more... )

Book Title: "The Maltese Falcon"
Author: Dashiell Hammett
Page Count: 213
First Published: 1929
Rating: superfunk - golden - sweet - blah - superblah - blergh - goatfood

Samuel Spade's jaw was long and bony, his chin a jutting v under the more flexible v of his mouth.

The writing of this was terrible, as is perfectly shown ( Read more... )

Book Title: "Kleider machen Leute"
Author: Gottfried Keller
Page Count: 60
First Published: 1856
Rating: superfunk - golden - sweet - blah - superblah- blergh - goatfood

An einem unfreundlichen Novembertage wanderte ein armes Schneiderlein auf der Landstraße nach Goldach, einer kleinen reichen Stadt, die nur wenige Stunden ( Read more... )

Book Title: "Vile Bodies"
Author: Evelyn Waugh
Page Count: 224
First Published: 1930
Rating: superfunk - golden - sweet - blah - superblah- blergh - goatfood

It was clearly going to be a bad crossing.

So good. A lot of what-ho-ing and spiffing and such things. A biting satire of fashionable Mayfair in the twenties, to speak ( Read more... )

Book Title: "North&South"
Author: Elizabeth Gaskell
Page Count: 520
First Published: 1855
Rating: superfunk - golden - sweet - blah - superblah - blergh - goatfood

The thing is, I thought that this was part romance, much bigger part social commentary when I cracked it open. But the story of Margaret, who ( Read more... )

Book Title: "The Grey Woman"
Author: Elizabeth Gaskell
First Published: 1861
Read by: librivox.org
Rating: superfunk - golden - sweet - blah - superblah - blergh - goatfood

Gothic novella (yes, another one, so?!), set in Germany and France, about the daughter of a Miller who marries a nobleman and, when she has settled in his spooky estate, ( Read more... )

Book Title: "Olalla"
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
First Published: 1885
Read by: librivox.org
Rating: superfunk - golden - sweet - blah - superblah - blergh - goatfood

"Shilling shocker". Please enjoy this genre title as much as I do. A gothic novella about a man fresh from the battlefield, sent to spain to recuperate. He lives with a family said ( Read more... )

Book Title: "Anthem"
Author: Ayn Rand
First Published: 1938
Read by: librivox.org
Rating: superfunk - golden - sweet - blah - superblah - blergh - goatfood

(I picked this solely because Rachel reads it in one episode of "Friends", just so you know.) 
It seems to be Dystopia Fortnight. Rand creates a Dystopia in which mankind has fallen back into the ( Read more... )

Book Title: "Dear Enemy"
Author: Jean Webster
First Published: 1915
Read by: librivox.org
Rating: superfunk - golden - sweet - blah - superblah - blergh - goatfood

Sequel to "Daddy Long Legs", this time, it's Judy's friend from college Sally McBride who writes the letters. Judy has convinced her to be the new head of her old orphanage and to make it ( Read more... )