Mirthful's bookblog

I’m getting a bit ahead of myself, what with reading Kadare before February, but as I know I have a tendency to fall behind on challenges like these, I figured being ahead of the game for once wouldn’t hurt.
Spring Flowers, Spring Frost is a very strange book. As the back has a quote comparing Kadare [...]

I found Never Let Me Go in a basket full of paperbacks at Fretex in Ullevålsveien and thought “Surely that’s one of the 1001 books? Well, even if not it’s probably worth 10 kroner.” It was. Both.
Having seen the film Remains of the Day with Emma Thompson and Anthony Hopkins, based on Ishiguro’s novel by the same name, I [...]

I swear I meant to write proper posts on some of these. However:
Police at the Funeral – Margery Allingham
Showed up in my mailbox as a sort of birthday present – bookcrossing style. A quirky and charming read and definitely an author to look out for later. I still haven’t quite decided who next to “inflict” this [...]

In a Glass Darkly is on the 1001 books list, so I joined a bookring, and finally got around to reading it (sorry for hogging it so long, guys). Uhm. Yes. I suppose it helps if you like ghost stories. I don’t, and this really didn’t do it for me, and I ended up skimming [...]

The Tea Rose – Jennifer Donnelly
The plot must consist of pretty much every cliché in the book except the classic evil twin. At the last two “twists in the tale” I actually laughed out loud – that’s how madly “buy one plot-device, get three free” infested it all was. However, despite this, Donnelly had me [...]

When I was admitted to hospital for observation rather unexpectedly because of high blood pressure in the last week before my due date, Martin had to be sent in to the town centre to provide reading material, as we had both, inadvertently, left home without a book. Philip Roth’s American Pastoral was not a bad [...]