Results tagged “Review” from Liverpool Echo - First Rule of Book Club

What a book.

Everything is Illuminated was Jonathan Safran Foer's first novel and sickeningly, he was only 25 when he wrote it.

I'll admit it now. I adored every word. It's funny, sweet, tantalising, confusing, clever, devastating...and a little weird...

Some of you may have noticed... I'm a girl.

Therefore, certain folk may consider the books I chose to read and review 'girlie'.

Feminist outrage aside, The Wire creator David Simon could hardly be called a 'girlie' guy (be it a compliment or an insult) although both men and women love his work.

Here Post and ECHO reporter Gary Stewart (not a girl) reviews David Simon and Ed Burns' Baltimore crime epic, The Corner...

It had been on the shelf for a while and thank goodness, my holiday gave me the proper time to devour The White Tiger!

I love a good book set in India (see my views on Shantaram which is, incidentally, supposed to be Madonna's favourite book)

Anyway, The White Tiger. It's a properly decent read; funny, slightly troubling, comically immoral and yet very very believable... 

Just returned from holiday and, of course, I stashed a few books in my luggage!

I grabbed The Piano Teacher at Manchester Airport, concerned the three I'd packed (Outliers, Everything is Illuminated and The White Tiger) wouldn't be enough.

It was lucky I did, I finished the last book the day after we landed home so I judged it exactly right.

Soooo, why choose it? ...

I have a love hate relationship with Ian McEwan although now I struggle to remember where the 'hate' bit came from... I think it's because his books often end badly.

I've just finished Saturday though and I thought it was good. It has been widely criticised because it is Ian McEwan at his most 'wordy'... he manages to stretch the action from one day into a whole book... without so much of a whiff of Jack Bauer.

I was about halfway through when...

Now, here is a book I've been meaning to read for some time - the giveaway might be the fact The God of Small Things won the Booker Prize in the dim and distant days of 1997.

Twelve years ago. Oh dear.

But are the advertising executives responsible for promoting a certain brand of Irish stout correct when they say ... good things come to those who wait?

Let's see...