Another Boris Akunin crime mystery, set in Imperial Russia, this time with the year given – 1900. Erast Fandorin investigates a series of suicides linked to a society of death-lovers, but all is not, of course, as it seems and the suicides are being helped on their way by anything from suggestion to murder – [...]
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Book review: Boris Akunin, “She Lover of Death”
Posted by simon7banks on May 16, 2012
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Book Review: Brian Aldiss, “Greybeard”
Brian Aldiss is of course an eminent name in Science Fiction and this is one of his most admired books – but it left me vaguely dissatisfied. The premise is an original and interesting one. Many SF stories start with the premise that humanity has been nearly wiped out (bit difficult to make a book [...]
Posted by simon7banks on May 1, 2012
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Book Reviews: Aravind Adiga: Between the Assassinations; Laurence Sterne: Tristram Shandy
So time to rest from posting poems and do some reviewing of books I’ve just read again. ARAVIND ADIGA: BETWEEN THE ASSASSINATIONS Adiga is well-known as the author of “The White Tiger”, but he was new to me. Here he invents a town in south-west India – Kittur – and strings together a series of [...]
Posted by simon7banks on March 12, 2012
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Book reviews: “And Another Thing” and “The State Counsellor”
Thanks to Hannah, whose blog I follow, for giving me the idea of blogging book reviews, though I don’t expect to blog as many as she does (she’s a university student of English, so I have an excuse). I could post them on my blogspot blog (http://sibathehat.blogspot.com), which is meant for pretty well everything that [...]
Posted by simon7banks on February 6, 2012
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