Divergent by Veroinca Roth
Publisher's summary: In a future Chicago, 16-year-old Beatrice Prior must choose among five predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest of her life, a decision made more difficult when she discovers that she is an anomaly who does not fit into any one group, and that the society she lives in is not... Continue Reading →
Clara Callan ( A tale of two sisters, two lives) by Richard B. Wright
When I heard they were finally making a movie of "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society" , it brought to mind another novel told primarily in letters and journal entries. Clara Callan, is the story of two sisters from the small Ontario town of Whitfield. Clara remains at home, a quiet poetry writing... Continue Reading →
The Magus, by John Fowles
Reading John Fowles’s The Magus is a lot like watching David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive. It’s totally captivating all the way through, but when the end comes, your first reaction is What? followed by a baffled silence and the feeling of possibly having just been ripped off. However, as others have said: The Magus is something... Continue Reading →
Welcome to Discworld (Silly Happenings from the Mind of Terry Pratchett)
Working the desk the other day, I was surprised and pleased with the appearance of "Terry Pratchett's Going Postal", on DVD. The movie reminded me of the charm of the offbeat series with its mix of humour, magic and great characters. Both the novel and the movie, follow the fate of Moist Von Lipwig a unscruplous... Continue Reading →
And another thing… by Eoin Colfer – Douglas Adams’s Hitchhiker’s Guide to the galaxy – Part six of three
Poor Eoin Colfer had enormous shoes to fill taking on Douglas Adams’s Hitchhiker’s trilogy, and as a die-hard fan of Adams, I have to admit I was highly skeptical that a children’s author could actually pull it off. When this kind of thing happens, though, you just have to go in with an open mind,... Continue Reading →
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