e synopsis for Rupert Thomson’s Secrecy piqued my interest, but the execution did not work for me. The novel centers on Gaetano Zummo. Zummo is a wax sculptor who has just accepted the patronage of the Grand Duke of Florence at the end of the seventeenth century. All he wants is to pursue his work m...
bookshelves: one-penny-wonder, paper-read, tbr-busting-2012, autumn-2012, dystopian, sci-fi, published-2005 Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: Vivienne Read from September 05 to October 16, 2012 Dedication: To darling Eva, with a love that knows no boundaries.Opening quote: It was as if a curtain had ...
I'm clearly in a bad mood this week for rating books - consider this 2.5 rather than 2.This is another book which had some really solid ideas behind it but which didn't quite have enough of a story to go with. The realisation of the Divided Kingdom was fabulous and I really liked the writing, but it...
17/08 - I'm enjoying this but at the same time having a few problems with the fact that the situation in Florence isn't properly explained for someone who doesn't already know the history. I was a big fan of the tv series The Borgias, but that is about the extent of my knowledge of Italy prior to t...
BABTBBC BLURB: "Some see you as a master craftsman. Others say you're a sorcerer. You're mysterious, obsessive. Controversial."Zummo - a 17th-century sculptor - makes things out of wax, figures so lifelike they look as if they might move and breathe. He has journeyed throughout Italy over the years ...
Three people, three different backgrounds and lifestyles, one soft drink. It's a thriller, and so well written. This book flew by, because the writing was crisp, but not spare, the characters not at all stereotypical (there's plenty of backstory).But what I liked most was the choices Rupert Thomson ...
My post-apocalyptic book club selection for this month.Not actually post-apocalyptic as dystopian, Thompson's novel posits a near-future England which has been divided into four sectors, based on the four 'humors' of Hippocratic medicine. In order to describe these four areas, Thompson then has a na...
Dedication: To darling Eva, with a love that knows no boundaries.Opening quote: It was as if a curtain had fallen,hiding everything I had ever known.Jean RhysOpening: There were men in my room, and it was bright, too bright, and I was being lifted out of my bed. I didn't struggle or cry out, I didn'...
This review was first posted on Northern Plunder, if you want to see more reviews please click here.What started off as a book that had a bit of promise, turned into a drab story of any ordinary man who's marriage is going down the drain a little.I couldn't finish this book as it was boring and coul...
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