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: "How to Make an American Quilt" 
Author: Whitney Otto
Page Count: 254
First Published: 1991
Rating: superfunk - golden - sweet - blah - superblah - blergh - goatfood

I bought this on the flea market because I vaguely remembered reading it a long time ago and wanted to know if I remembered the right book. I kind of did, only I didn't ( Read more... )

Book Title: "Blow Your House Down"
Author: Pat Barker
Page Count: 170
First Published: 1984
Rating: superfunk - golden - sweet - blah - superblah - blergh - goatfood

It seems that Pat Barker can't write a book I will not love. In her second novel, she dives into the seedy underbelly (an expression I've wanted to use for a while) of a british city, where ( Read more... )

Book Title: "Mary Ann in Autumn"
Author: Armistead Maupin
Page Count: 364
First Published: 2010
Rating: superfunk - golden - sweet - blah - superblah - blergh - goatfood

In this newest installment of the "Tales of the City" series Maupin reaches back to a dangling thread left in one of the very early novels.He also re-introduces Mary Ann, about to ( Read more... )

I was kind of busy, so here's a quick rundown of so far so we can get back on track. Shall we?

Book Title: "The Tooth"
Author: Shirley Jackson
Page Count: 96
First Published: var.
Rating: superfunk - golden - sweet - blah - superblah - blergh - goatfood

A small collection of short stories that make you go *bwuh?"

Book Title: "Skeleton Crew"
Author: ( Read more... )

Book Title: "Gentlemen & Players"
Author: Joanne Harris
Page Count: 508
First Published: 2005
Rating: superfunk - golden - sweet - blah - superblah - blergh - goatfood

If there's one thing I've learned in the past fifteen years, it's this; that murder is really no big deal.

Meh. One of those thrillery stories with a twist and a twist, oh and a twist. ( Read more... )

Book Title: "Mord in Mesopotamien"
Author: Agatha Christie
Page Count: ?
First Published: 1936
Rating: superfunk - golden - sweet - blah - superblah - blergh - goatfood

A Poirot Mystery. It was ok. The narrator was a level-headed nurse with a strong racist streak, so maybe that took some of the enjoyment out of it for me as a modern reader. The solution ( Read more... )

Book Title: "The Outcast"
Author: Sadie Jones
Page Count: 444
First Published: 2007
Rating: superfunk - golden - sweet - blah - superblah - blergh - goatfood

There was nobody there to meet him.

Right after I wrote that I needed something that felt like a holiday for Easter, I went to my shelf, and finally decided on this. I've had it for a while, and ( Read more... )

Book Title: "Der Richter und sein Henker"
Author: Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Page Count: 109
First Published: 1952
Rating: superfunk - golden - sweet - blah - superblah - blergh - goatfood

This is one of those books that I had to read in school and hated. HATED. We all hated it, which just made everyone hate it even more, and ( Read more... )

Book Title: "Die Wand"
Author: Marlen Haushofer
Page Count: 285
First Published: 1968
Rating: superfunk - golden - sweet - blah - superblah - blergh - goatfood

Heute, am fünften November, beginne ich mit meinem Bericht.

A woman finds herself caught behind an invisible wall, and everyone she can see on the other side is ( Read more... )