Title: The Mermaid and the Shoe Writer: K.G.Campbell Publishing House: Kids Can Press Date of Publication: April 1st 2014 Rating: 5 stars “Stop asking useless questions,” Calypso replied, “and be remarkable. Like the rest of us.” But Minnow doesn’t want to be “remarkable” like her forty – nine sisters, Neptune’s daughters. She doesn’t care for…
Month: July 2020
The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey
Title: The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey (Diarios de motocicleta: notas de viaje por América Latina) Writer: Ernesto ”Che” Guevara (translated by Aleida Guevara March) Publishing House: Ocean Press Date of Publication: August 1st 2003 (first published October 1st 1992) Rating: 5 stars If you attempt ANY kind of political comments, the…
The Murder at the Vicarage
Title: Murder at the Vicarage Writer: Agatha Christie Publishing House: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers Date of Publication: September 1st 2006 (first published 1930) Rating: 5 stars “The young people think the old people are fools — but the old people know the young people are fools.” THIS! In the tale that started it all,…
The Luminaries
Title: The Luminaries Writer: Eleanor Catton Publishing House: Granta Date of Publication: August 24th 2013 Rating: 5 stars “The clock had struck that late hour of twilight when all colours seem suddenly to lose their richness, and it was raining hard; though the cockled glass, the yard was bleached and fading. Inside, the spirit lamps…
Among the Mermaids
Title: Among the Mermaids Writer: Varla Ventura Publishing House: Weiser Books Date of Publication: July 1st 2013 Rating: 5 stars ‘’Since the first stories were told, the sea has been the folklore, myth and mystery in every corner of the earth, and the life-sustaining and life-threatening centre of every coastal culture. Its sheer vastness holds…
Phantom Encounters
Title: Phantom Encounters Writer: Janet P. Cave, Laura Foreman Publishing House: Time-Life Books Date of Publication: January 1st 1988 Rating: 5 stars ’ Or when the lawn Is pressed by unseen feet, and ghosts return Gently at twilight, gently go at dawn, The sad intangible who grieve and yearn;’’ To Walter de la Mare, T.S….
Historias de Aquí y de Allá
Title: Historias de Aquí y de Allá Writer: Luis Sepúlveda Publication Date: Otra Orilla Date of Publication: July 1st 2010 Rating: 5 stars ‘’I am the shadow of what we were, and while there is light we exist.’’ Luis Sepúlveda One of the most important writers of our times returns to Chile after 14 years…
A Luminous Republic
Title: A Luminous Republic (original title: República luminosa) Writer: Andrés Barba (translated bu Lisa Dillman) Publishing House: Granta Books Date of Publication: June 4th 2020 (first published November 29th 2017) Rating: 5 stars ‘’When I’m asked about the thirty-two children who lost their lives in San Cristóbal, my reaction varies depending on the age of…
The Mirror and the Light
Title: The Mirror and the Light Writer: Hilary Mantel Publishing House: Fourth Estate Date of Publication: March 5th 2020 Rating: 5 stars “This is what life does for you in the end; it arranges a fight you can’t win.” Anne Boleyn, Catherine Howard, Anne of Cleves. Three women that amply demonstrate the saturnine, obsessive and…
Το Χαμόγελο της Εκάτης
Τίτλος:Το Χαμόγελο της Εκάτης Συγγραφέας: Λίτσα Ψαραύτη Εκδοτικός Οίκος: Πατάκης Ημερομηνία Έκδοσης: Μάιος 1996 (πρώτη έκδοση 1995) Rating: 5 stars ‘’11/7/1999” γράφει το δεύτερο φύλλο. ”Ημερομηνίες σε όλα τα βιβλία”, συνήθιζε να λέει η γιαγιά μου. ”Είναι τα βιβλία αυτά που σου θυμίζουν στιγμές και πράξεις κι ανθρώπους που περνούν”. Συνήθεια που κληρονόμησα, βεβαίως, βεβαίως….
Jamaica Inn
Title: Jamaica Inn Writer: Daphne du Maurier Publishing House: Little, Brown and Company Date of Publication: December 17th 2013 (first published 1936) Rating: 5 stars “Dead men tell no tales, Mary.” The story of Mary Wellan and her journey to the haunting, dark and fascinating Cornish cost. The tale of a land haunted by terrible…
Cards On The Table
Title: Cards on the Table Writer: Agatha Christie Publishing House: William Morrow Paperbacks Date of Publication: December 15th 2003 (first published November 2nd 1936) Rating: 5 stars “He played the part of the devil too successfully. But he was not the devil. Au fond, he was a stupid man. And so – he died.” “Because…
The Great Fortune (The Balkan Trilogy 1)
Title: The Great Fortune (The Balkan Trilogy 1) Writer: Olivia Manning Publishing House: Penguin Random House UK Date of Publication: July 30th 2020 (first published 1960) Rating: 4 stars ”A pine forest came down to the edge of the track: the light from the carriages rippled over the bordering trees. As she gazed out into…
People In The Room
Title: People In The Room (original title: Personas En La Sala) Writer: Norah Lange Publishing House: And Other Stories Date of Publication: August 9th 2018 (first published 1950) Rating: 5 stars ‘’To me, it always seemed unnecessary to watch a storm. This time, though, I had no chance to be angry because I forgot about…
Five Little Pigs
Title: Five Little Pigs Writer: Agatha Christie Publishing House: Berkley Date of Publication: December 15th 1985 (first published May 1942) Rating: 5 stars “One does not, you know, employ merely the muscles. I do not need to bend and measure the footprints and pick up the cigarette ends and examine the bent blades of grass. It…
Hamnet
Title: Hamnet Writer: Maggie O’Farrell Publishing House: Knopf Publishing Group Date of Publication: July 21st 2020 (first published March 31st 2020) Rating: 5 stars ‘’Then Judith is in a crowd. It is night- time, cold; the glow of lanterns punctuates the freezing dark. She thinks it is the Candlemas fair. She is in and also…
Τα Φαντάσματα του Γιορκ
Τίτλος: Τα Φαντάσματα του Γιορκ Συγγραφέας: Χριστόφορος Μηλιώνης Εκδοτικός Οίκος: Κέδρος Ημερομηνία Έκδοσης: 1999 Rating: 5 stars ’’Οταν πλησιάζουμε στο Γιορκ, οι ανταύγειες του ουρανού, ωχρές, φωτίζουν ακόμα την πύλη του, τα μεσαιωνικά κάστρα, τα γοτθικά καμπαναριά και τους πύργους. […] Όμως, καθώς διαβαίνω τη γέφυρα, πάνω από το ποτάμι, κι ύστερα τη μεσαιωνική πόλη,…
Reputations
Title: Reputations Writer: Juan Gabriel Vásquez (translated by Anna McLean) Publishing House: Riverhead Books Date of Publication: September 20th 2016 (first published April 2013) Rating: 5 stars “The memory has a marvellous capacity to remember the forgotten, its existence and its stalking, and thus allow us to stay alert when we don’t want to forget and…
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