I've been doing ThrowbackThursdays for a while but I noticed that I wrote a lot of reviews in a short time when I first started. So, I post more than one Throwback every week. These are my reviews from December 2013.
Anderson, Leith "Jesus. An Intimate Portrait of the Man, His Land, and His People" - 2006
This is an interesting read both for Christians and those who know almost nothing about the New Testament.
A favourite book of both my boys even though the main character was a girl. It's all about growing up and how it can be both a painful and a joyous occasion.
Garfield, Simon "On the Map. Why the World Looks the Way it Does" (aka On the Map: A Mind-Expanding Exploration of the Way the World Looks) - 2012
I have always loved maps. They are beautiful, they tell tales of far away countries, exotic worlds, people I will never meet, life at different times. How can anybody not like maps. They teach us so much, yet they are also an art form to admire and enjoy.
Simon Garfield has put together a collection of stories about maps through the ages.
Pool, Daniel "What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew" - 1993
Even though this book is a non-fiction one, the first part reads like a novel. If, like me, you love your English classics, this is the book for you. It's not just about food but, as the second part of the title already suggests, about every important or not so important fact about life in the 19th century in England.
Why I have not read any books by this extraordinary writer is a big mystery to me. I wondered whether this book was partly autobiographical, it certainly had tendencies that sounded like it. I liked the alternate history part, a genre I cherish a lot.
A young writer meets an older writer, his writing hero. And there he meets an interesting young girl who seems to have a fascinating past. That is the basic story. However, it's the way Philip Roth tells the story that makes it interesting, makes you want to know all about Nathan Zuckerman, the young author, and his life, makes you want to read the whole series.
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