Review: The Sun Doctor

The Sun Doctor by Robert Shaw

My rating: 4 of 5 stars



Robert Shaw is a beautiful writer, his language is poetry and stories profound. This is my second Shaw novel and it was an alluring story. The man in the glass booth was better but this one was more moving I think. How Shaw described the main characters thought made me almost believe it was written from his own experience.



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Review: Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives

Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives by David Eagleman

My rating: 5 of 5 stars



A funny well written collection of short stories about the afterlife, 40 hilariously written versions of how the world see on the afterlife. A great book which amused me from beginning to end, Eagleman is a great and clever writer and Sum is a book everyone will enjoy!



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Review: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams

My rating: 4 of 5 stars



I utterly loved this play, never seen the film , but now I have to and. I could really see Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman as the obsessive wife and the drunken husband struggling with marital issues. A beautifully written story with characters that are so well rounded that it's hard to grip that the story is actually quite short, way too short if you ask me, I want to know what happens after, I want to know what Brick actually felt for the friend he lost, I want to know how Maggie wound up, about Big Daddy about everything. An amazing play which probably wouldn't have been as good if we did find out all those things.



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Review: Casino Royale

Casino Royale by Ian Fleming

My rating: 3 of 5 stars



I would have given this book a higher grade if it wouldn't have been for the unbelievably sexist view on women, well I guess I always knew the Bond series was a little like that from watching the movies but the book was So much more evident on his view on women and their capability on doing a 'man's' job. However, it was a great story and as said I am a huge bond-fan, always been, so I enjoyed reading the material that became the movies and Fleming is a great writer... but yeah, seeing how women are portrayed through his eyes on paper was more evident than I thought.






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Review: Breakfast at Tiffany's

Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote

My rating: 5 of 5 stars



I completely loved it, even though it is a mere 100+ pages I fell for Holly's character right away and I really wish the novel was longer.



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Review: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams

My rating: 4 of 5 stars







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Review: The Dwarf

The Dwarf by Pär Lagerkvist

My rating: 5 of 5 stars



A truly AMAZING novel from master writer Pär Lagerkvist. It is probably the best Swedish book I have ever read after Doctor Glas. A beautifully written eerie story with a haunting narrative from a Dwarf working in renaissance Italy for a Monarch who uses him for his evil deeds. A true classic which I recommend everyone to read.



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Review: What Was She Thinking?: Notes on a Scandal

What Was She Thinking?: Notes on a Scandal by Zoë Heller

My rating: 4 of 5 stars



this novel instantly drew me in, I felt like I could have read it in just one go, a gripping story of a subject which most people find fascinating I think, the forbidden love or desire between an middle age woman and her 15 year old pupil. Heller writes beautifully and unpretentious making the reading so easy and with the method of the narrator being a third person looking at the relationship from the outside telling their story adds to originality and cleverness. I truly enjoyed this book and would recommend it highly!



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Review: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

My rating: 3 of 5 stars



Not my favourite Joyce book, very heavy with religious talk and references, I believe that was the reason I didn't really enjoy it. Joyce is a brilliant writer but in this novel it is too much of that, too much of nothing really happening, more Stephen's struggle of finding his place in the world. My Literature teacher told us a lot of background of this novel and the impact Joyce actually made for writing this, considering he is questening religion, god and struggles with his sexuality so I do appreciate that, hence the 3/5 rather than 2/5. This is my second time reading this so perhaps I need to research Irish history and catholicism beforehand to really understand it because I believe it is a great novel I just need another go to really appreciate everything I think.



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Review: Never Let Me Go

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

My rating: 4 of 5 stars



Another amazing novel from Kazuo Ishiguro, whenever I pick up one of his books I have the highest of expectations and I am never dissappointed. He is the elit amongst authors for me because his style of writing and storytelling is utterly captivating and even though he was soley writing about the life of hosue flies, it would be a masterpiece.
Nevel let me go is a realist novel which brushes sci-fi since it is set in an alternative universe where our tenchological skills in cloning is beyond of what's possible now and Ishiguro portrays the life of three of them that are only brought up to donate their organs to "real" people with diseases or injuries. So Ishiguro explores friendship, love and what it is to be human. A fantastic novel well worth reading.



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Review: Kingdom Come

Kingdom Come by J.G. Ballard

My rating: 4 of 5 stars



A great satire of our over-consumerism world and what it can do to your mind. I think Ballard writes something real even though it is set in a dystopian society and it is not far fetched from the real world which is sadly filled with racism, violence and consumerism. Ballard is a master writer and when he died we lost a man who could brilliantly criticize our flawed world.



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Review: The Heir of Night

The Heir of Night by Helen Lowe

My rating: 0 of 5 stars







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Review: Pure

Pure by Julianna Baggott

My rating: 4 of 5 stars



A really great dystopian novel from Julianna Baggott. I was hooked from the very first page and when I finished it the pace had kept up through the whole book and continually given me fascinated reading. She creates original dark characters and events which makes me hungry for more.



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