#ThrowbackThursday. January 2016

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 December 2016.

Hammond, Richard "On the Edge: My Story" - 2007

Funny, I just read another book by this author:

"As You Do: Adventures With Evil, Oliver And The Vice President Of Botswana" - 2008
As you can see, he wrote this a year after the his other book. This memoir tells the story of his accident and his return to life. And not only that, we get to learn a lot about both of them, Richard's childhood, marriage, children, and family.

Murakami, Haruki "Norwegian Wood" (J: Noruwei no mori, ノルウェイの森) - 1987   

There is so much in this story, it's hard to get it all together, the problems of a teenager growing up, the problems of dealing with a sudden death, first love, second love, illness, especially depression. I am not a fan of poetry but this novel reads like beautiful poetry. I love the style, the flow of the words.

Pagnol, Marcel "Jean de Florette" (F: Jean de Florette) - 1963

A book about village life and how much villagers keep together against any newcomer, how they are almost treated like enemies, or maybe even worse. I've seen this happening and have experienced it myself, so I could very well relate to the story where Jean Cadoret inherits a farm but the other villagers don't want him there and do everything to prevent him from being successful.

Tyler, Anne "A Spool of Blue Thread" - 2015 

This is a story about four generations of a family. A family that consists of all the usual members, the ordinary ones and the not so ordinary ones. Anne Tyler tells about them as if you are there, as if you are part of the clan. It all sounds so familiar.