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Monthly Archives: May 2015
May, 2015
These are the books I read in May, 2015. A total of 16 books with 8 of them over 400 pages! Categorically, I read 4 crime books , 1 sci-fi, 1 nonfiction, 3 classics and 5 women authors. No translations. Ratings … Continue reading
Seveneves
Seveneves by Neal Stephenson 2015 / 880 pages read by Mary Robinette Kowal, Will Damron – 31h 55m rating: B / science fiction “The moon blew up without warning and for no apparent reason.” Yup – that’s the first sentence of … Continue reading
The Martian
The Martian by Andy Weir 2011 / (385 pages) read by R.C. Bray 10h 53m Rating: A / sci-fi (space travel) ** read in April – forgot to put the post up ** Imagine yourself an astronaut who is stranded … Continue reading
The Whites
The Whites by Richard Price / Harry Brandt 2015 / 352 -pages read by Ari Flakes 10h 30m rating: B+ / literary crime I really enjoyed Lush Life back in 2008 so I was considering reading this one anyway and then the Modern Fiction group … Continue reading
The End of Vandalism
The End of Vandalism by Tom Drury 1994 / (352 pages) read by Lloyd James 10h 36m rating: 9 / contemp fiction I found it! A book in which many of the characters are a part of the setting – … Continue reading
The Information
The Information by Martin Amis 1996 / 372 pages rating: 5 0ut of 10 / contemp lit This is the third book in what is generally known as TheLondon Trilogy, with the books Money and London Fields preceding it. They’re not connected by … Continue reading
Encounters at the Heart of the World
Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People by Elizabeth A. Fenn 2014 / 480 pages rating – 8 / US history (Indian) (self-select) Interesting to me because of the North Dakota connection and I’ve also … Continue reading
Where’d You Go, Bernadette?
Where’d You Go, Bernadette? by Maria Semple 2013 / 352 pages read by Kathleen Wiltholte 9h 39m rating: 8 / contemp fiction – humorous This is a very funny, hilarious (?), and generally good-natured satire of contemporary society with emphasis on … Continue reading
Invasion of Privacy
Invasion of Privacy by Ian Sutherland 2014/ 472 pages read by Matthew Lloyd Davies 16h 59m rating: A + / cyber-crime A cellist is the victim of a very violent, premeditated murder. Individual webcams are highjacked to provide entertainment and information. Hackers are needed to solve … Continue reading
No Show
No Show by Simon Wood 2013 / 298 pages read by Luke Daniels 8h 20m rating B / crime First, the narrator is difficult to get used to – his interpretation of Terry Sheffield, the protagonist, is fine, but when … Continue reading
Blessed Are the Dead
Blessed Are the Dead by Malla Nunn (South Africa/Australia) 2012 / 336 pages read by Humphrey Bower 9h 7m (A+) rating: A / crime This is the third book in the Detective Emmanuel Cooper series by Malla Nunn of … Continue reading
The Snopes Trilogy
The Snopes Trilogy by William Faulkner 1940 – 1957 / 3 volumes Rating 10 / classic American fiction Whew! I did it. A long time goal to read the whole Snopes Trilogy – ever since just after high school. … Continue reading
The Mansion
The Mansion by William Faulkner 1959 / 498 pages rating 9+ / classic American The Mansion starts up at the scene where Mink Snopes shoots Isaac Houston over a cow. This is back-story from maybe half-way through The Town but where The Town leaves Mink with … Continue reading
The Town
The Town by William Faulkner 1957 / 418 pages read by Joe Barrett (A) 14h 39m rating 9 / classic American (read and listened) The second volume in The Snopes Trilogy was written seventeen years after The Hamlet, the first book in the trilogy, but it takes … Continue reading
The Hamlet
The Hamlet by William Faulkner 1940 / 432 pages read by Joe Barrett (A) 14h 39m rating 9 / classic American (read and listened) The Hamlet is the first book of what is known as The Snopes Trilogy. Faulkner seems to be … Continue reading
The Night Guest
The Night Guest by Fiona McFarlane (Australian) 2013 / 257 pages read by Lisbeth Kennelly 9h 15m (B+) rating: 8/ literary suspense At first Ruth, a 70-something woman who lives alone in a rather remote part of Australia and near the sea, thinks … Continue reading
The Harder They Come
The Harder They Come by T.C. Boyle 2015 / 400 pages read by Graham Hamilton (A) rating 8.5 / contemp. fiction I’ve been reading Boyle since his amazing “Tortilla Curtain” in 1996 or so and by now I’ve read most of his books … Continue reading