First read: 30-04-2008.

Notes: I read exactly half of this, that's enough to make a whole another book (There's even an edition with two volumes to prove me right) and I do have a lovely quote (or five) and an opinion I want to record so... MC is a difficult book, long and rambling it's hard to keep reading, it's hard to mantain interest in one of ( Read more... )

"The Passion" by Jeanette Winterson.

First read: 23-04-2008.

Notes: This is a philosophical novel, which is why you get a load of quotes but I didn't cry (Although I laughted quite a bit, what with a beggining that goes: "It was Napoleon who had such a passion for chicken that he kept his chefts working around the clock") . It's short and easy to ( Read more... )

First read: 23-04-2008.

Summary: 173.000 words. Her crush on male impersonator Kitty Butler leads the main character to leave her small Kentish town, where she lives and works with her family in the family business: oysters. London and life as Kitty's dresser is everything she could have dreamed of, and soon she discovers that Kitty returns her ( Read more... )

First read: 04-2008 (finished trying to read in November)

Notes: I'm so fed up with this book, I read about it in David Pringle's 100 best fantasy novels years ago, read and re-read the review with fascination and it's so dense and descriptive and has such uninteresting characters I can't believe any child ever finished it, much less enjoyed it. ( Read more... )

"Los niños de Darwin" de Greg Bear

Primera lectura: Abril 2008

Comentarios: Se suponé que esto es soft sci-fi (ciencia ficción blanda, que se concentra en el efecto que la ciencia tiene en la gente) y supongo que lo es pero... el autor es malisimo creando personajes tridimensionales así que termina con un millón de gente, que se muere y muta y ( Read more... )