Fiction – Page 5 – Meditations

March 18, 2018

Review: ‘American Gods’, Neil Gaiman

American Gods by Neil Gaiman My rating: 3 of 5 stars I wasn’t that carried away by this book while at the same time…

August 22, 2017

Rating: 5 out of 5 This truly is one of the more spectacular books, also evidence by my propensity to re-read it, especially during…

February 17, 2014

I can remember reading ‘The Boys from Brazil’ sometime last year. I never thought much else of Ira Levin although I really enjoyed that…

February 16, 2014

I chose this book after my previous one because of the name. The name looked promising; I thought I had found a dramatic piece…

June 8, 2013

There’s a stillness here that’s like the stillness you find in the snowy, bleak plains of Siberia. — Taguchi, Randy (2012-11-20). Fujisan (p. 3)….

June 3, 2013

I generally find that mentioning the better parts about books is the way forward. Unfortunately, while I really do enjoy Clive Cussler, ‘Black Wind’…

May 29, 2013

Tania Hershman is a very interesting writer. Now, I can tell this by having read just one of her short stories. The one I’ve…

May 26, 2013

He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random, it would be a cool photograph. —…

May 24, 2013

David Nicholls is an author with whose works I have been acquainted with for a while now. I’ve read ‘One Day’ and ‘The Understudy’,…

May 22, 2013

Mr Hesse (or rather, H Hesse) was a unique writer in many ways. I think he took writing to the very depths of the…