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... )

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33) Jackson, Shirley: "The Tooth" ****
34) King, Stephen: "Skeleton Crew" *****
35) Gabaldon, Diana: "The Exile" ****
36) Garwood, Julie: "The Clayborne Brides" ***
37) Maupin, Armistead: "Mary Ann in Autumn" *****

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Gabaldon, Diana: "The Exile"
Gabaldon, Diana: "Cross Stitch"
James, Henry: "The Portrait of a Lady"
Maupin, Armistead: "Mary Ann ( 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... )

Eugenides, Jeffrey: "Middlesex" (01.05.)

Ades, Dawn: "Dada und Surrealismus" (07.05.)

Von Arnim, Gisela&Bettina: "Das Leben der Hochgräfin Gritta von Rattenzuhausbeiuns" (07.05.)

Wolf, Christa: "Gesammelte Erzählungen" (07.05.)

Holzer, Hans: "Ghosts of New England" (07.05.)

Ury, Else: "Nesthäkchen" (07.05.)
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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: "Jo liebt einen alten Mann"
Author: Elisabeth Schucht
Page Count: 134
First Published: 1947(?)
Rating: superfunk - golden - sweet - blah - superblah - blergh - goatfood

An epistolary novel set in 1931/32. Jo, the heroine and letter-writer, is a 30 year old woman stuck with a crippled (book jargon) husband. He was wounded in Verdun and can't ( 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: "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: "Dollys schönster Sieg"
Author: Enid Blyton
Page Count: 123
First Published: 1986
Rating: superfunk - golden - sweet - blah - superblah - blergh - goatfood

I got this as a surprise in the mail and read it right away. It's one of the infamous german additions to the "Mallory Towers" series, in which Darrell Rivers, here Dolly, stays at MT to ( Read more... )