Dani (a GR friend) asked me why I gave this three stars, so instead of pulling out the reading journals I've been keeping since 2000, I reread it. The book is a great homage to the Victorian thriller that Cox had long edited and admired. What I found distracting were the footnotes.The novel is one o...
It covers Classic Music (an anecdote about Luciano Pavarotti surprised me so much I had to share it with other people); Black Music (jazz, blues) and British Music (The Beatles, Oasis).
I've been looking for this book for ages. The first time I've read it, I copied a lot of facts described in here in a little notebook I have. Because every single crazy fact was amazing, these artist were so mad. I have to get a copy. Amazing book for any age: adult, child, etc.
As I was not yet writing reviews when I read this book, I don't have reviews for each of the short stories included in this anthology. So here are my ratings; if I ever reread the book, I intend to add reviews.★★★☆☆ The Tapestried Chamber by Sir Walter Scott★★★☆☆ The Phantom Coach by Amelia B. Edwar...
I MUST read ghost stories on Halloween but can only handle those that are basically one step up from Casper in terms of scares. Most of these were already in the other James book I read but there were a few new ones and a very creepy one involving hair.
I got through part 1 and failed to care enough to continue. As there are reserves on it I'm going to send it on it's merry way. I may return to it again.
This was so unnecessarily long. I hated almost every single character and found Edward's slavish devotion to fate inexplicable and annoying. Poor Edward - I saw that betrayal coming a mile away (though unfortunately it took many, many pages to learn I was right).
I read The Meaning of Night some time ago, and although I quite enjoyed it it hasn't stuck in my memory. This follow-up novel was far more up my street. It's a good old-fashioned murder/blackmail mystery in the Wilkie Collins tradition (clearly intended, as Collins is referenced many times), but unf...
Like The Meaning of Night, its predecessor, The Glass of Time is a page turning period mystery about identity, the nature of secrets, and what happens when past obsessions impose themselves on an unwilling present.In the autumn of 1876, nineteen year-old orphan Esperanza Gorst arrives at the great c...
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