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 listed more than one Throwback book every week. Now, I have reached the ones I posted ten years ago and will probalby just post one every month. These are my reviews from September 2015.
A story about Famagusta, a town in Eastern Cyprus, that goes deep and shows how stupid any war is. People live their ordinary lives. They go to work, they go home. They love their families, they love their lives. Then the invasion.
Lawson, Mary "Road Ends" - 2013
I like the author for her realistic description of the characters and their actions.
An interesting story, not just about young Megan who leaves Canada for England but also and especially about the family she leaves behind, her father, brother, but mostly her mother. A story about mental illness in a time where that was such a taboo, people wouldn't acknowledge it anywhere.
Levithan, David "Every Day" - 2012
An interesting book. Not especially my genre. But an interesting concept about a "being" who is somebody different every day. Well written, certainly deserves to be a best-seller, especially for the "young adults" it has been written for because it poses so many questions that every teenager goes through. Who am I?
McCarthy, Pete "The Road to McCarthy: Around the World in Search of Ireland" - 2002
The author of "McCarthy's Bar" gives us another tale of his travels, this time from Ireland to Morocco, New York, the Caribbeans, Tasmania. A hilarious book by a funny writer who left us all too early.
Titchmarsh, Alan "Trowel and Error" - 2002
The presenter of "Ground Force" and "Gardener's World" writes about his life. He writes the way he talks, he is the same nice guy from next door as he is in his programmes. And listening to his story, you understand why that is the case.
The presenter of "Ground Force" and "Gardener's World" writes about his life. He writes the way he talks, he is the same nice guy from next door as he is in his programmes. And listening to his story, you understand why that is the case.
Wilde, Oscar "The Picture of Dorian Gray" - 1890
I think that there is a lot about Oscar Wilde in Dorian Gray. The novel certainly raises many questions and gives everyone a lot to think about. How shallow are we really? How vain? And what would we swap for eternal beauty?
'Dorian Gray' was definitely an interesting, strange, and often funny read with a thought provoking quote on almost every page. Plus, its Oscar's birthday today!!!
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