As every other year I've entered this challenge, it has been really entertaining, so thank you for hosting it, Beth Fish!

And now, the books and reviews!

1. A book with a number in the title: Three Italian Chronicles by Stendhal
2. A book with jewelry or a gem in the title: Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
3. A book with a size in the title ( Read more... )

Murder Must Advertise is part of the Lord Peter Wimsey series, and it's the first book I've read by Dorothy L. Sayers and so the first book I've read from this series, although it is no less than installment number ten! I can safely say not much is lost if you read this as a stand-alone novel.

Lord Peter Wimsey is a nobleman and a sleuth related to ( Read more... )

Girl with a Pearl Earring is the story of Griet, the fictional maid (as nobody knows who the model was) who appears in Girl with a Pearl Earring, a superb painting by Johannes Vermeer.

This is the only book by Tracy Chevalier that I've read and didn't know what to expect before I started it. Definitely, I didn't expect the delicate prose that ensued ( Read more... )

Fall of Giants is the first installment of the Century, a trilogy dealing with the political and social changes that happened worldwide during the twentieth century. It is written by Ken Follett, an author whose books I usually don't enjoy. They merely keep me entertained when I'm too busy. The exception to that rule was The Pillars of the Earth, ( Read more... )

 This book is perfect. That's it.

If on a winter's night a traveler is a love letter to readers and reading, and an insight into the process of writing. I think it's important to know the structure of this novel to really love it, especially if you are not keen on post-modern literary devices. First, the majority of the novel is written in second ( Read more... )

A book with a number in the title: Three Italian Chronicles by Stendhal
A book with jewelry or a gem in the title: pending
A book with a size in the title: Fall of Giants by Ken Follett
A book with travel or movement in the title: pending
A book with evil in the title: pending
A book with a life stage in the title: The Underground City or the Child of ( Read more... )

A book with a number in the title: Three Italian Chronicles by Stendhal
A book with jewelry or a gem in the title: pending
A book with a size in the title: Fall of Giants by Ken Follett
A book with travel or movement in the title: pending
A book with evil in the title: pending
A book with a life stage in the title: The Underground City or the Child of ( Read more... )

I thought this list would just include the usual What's in a name challenge, but I couldn't resist the other two. I was going to read more books from my TBR pile and from the 1001 list, anyway (at least that's what I say to avoid guilt).
Challenges I'll be doing next year:

A. What's in a name 4

1. A book with a number in the title: Three Italian ( Read more... )