Great read. Far too many reviews on the Web. The best one is this link which explains all the mathematical puzzles in this book. Mathematical Association review.
Posts Tagged ‘Review’
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
Posted in The List, tagged Mark Haddon, Review, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, World Book Night on January 28, 2011 | Comments Off on The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
Review of La théorie des nuages by Stéphane Audeguy
Posted in The List, tagged La théorie des nuages, Review, Stéphane Audeguy on January 22, 2011 | Comments Off on Review of La théorie des nuages by Stéphane Audeguy
C’est une histoire de culs, or it is a new way to make meteorology sexy. This first novel from Audeguy takes you on several historical journey’s all related one way or another with the way science has perceived clouds. The entire story is held together by the library of a Paris based Japanese fashion designer […]
Review of Vies Minuscules by Pierre Michon
Posted in The List, tagged Pierre Michon, Review, Vies Minuscules on January 20, 2011 | Comments Off on Review of Vies Minuscules by Pierre Michon
My second Michon book devoured in one month. A completely different style to his biographical work, possibly because this Novel, made out of a series of vignettes on the small and insignificant lives of past acquaintances, was stranded together through autobiographical details on the authors love life and his encounters with drink and barbiturates. Some […]
Review of L’Enfant Chat by Béatrix Beck
Posted in The List, tagged Béatrix Beck, L'Enfant Chat, Lost in no-translation, Review on January 20, 2011 | Comments Off on Review of L’Enfant Chat by Béatrix Beck
Through-out the year, I will add on this blog a number of reviews of the Novels you can find on the list. We will start with Beck, an author born in Belgium, who lived in France and Switzerland. She was Gide’s secretary for a while and has a very simple – but engaging writing style. […]
Review of Riders in the Chariot by Patrick White
Posted in The List, tagged Patrick White, Review, Riders in the Chariot on January 20, 2011 | Comments Off on Review of Riders in the Chariot by Patrick White
Post-war Australia was a land of internecine wars of religion, between catholics and protestants, jews and anglicans, along with native Australians left on the side-lines to loose themselves in drink on the margins of the city. A long forgotten time in Australia’s history. In Patrick White’s tale, all main characters are outsiders, slowly decaying, as […]
Review of Magnus by Sylvie Germain
Posted in The List, tagged Magnus, Review, Sylvie Germain on January 20, 2011 | Comments Off on Review of Magnus by Sylvie Germain
Difficult to slot this book into a category, it is a story, even a Novel, made up of fragments. Just as the main character’s personality is made up of fragments remembered from his childhood during WWII in a Germany under Allied bombing, or from his time seeking refuge in Mexico, with a mother who turns […]