[continued from part one] 8] Favourite new authors discovered A bit repetitive but those I have mentioned previously Jussi Adler-Olsen, Arne Dahl, and Tom Franklin. 9] Most hilarious Those who have been reading the blog will know that I found The Dinosaur’s Feather by Sisssel-Jo Gazan rather funny, and posted about it at Back story [...]
Archive for December, 2011
2011 End of Year Book Meme: part two
Posted: December 31, 2011 in Book Awards, dinosaurs, England, Historical, memes, notes, Southern States, Spain, Sweden6
2011 End of Year Book Meme: part one
Posted: December 30, 2011 in Argentina, Book Awards, Brazil, France, Italy, memes, Norway, notes, Scandinavia, Sicily, South Africa, Sweden, VeniceI discovered this meme at Bernadette’s Reactions to Reading and have decided to expand it a little as choosing just one book is tricky in some categories. 1] Best Book of 2011 originally written in English The difficulty in choosing a best book even when you read only 19 originally written in English is remembering [...]
Here are the charts that tell the story of my reading in 2011. I only read 48 books but it was a case of quality rather than quantity.
I am just tidying up a few loose ends before the end of the year. You can read about Braquo my favourite discovery of the year at Euro Crime. Series one ended with the sort of cliffhanger that makes scanning the schedules for series two an essential activity. Don’t forget you have only a few more [...]
Some people might regard me as easy to buy for, or very boring, or just as the man who wanted more turkey curry on 28 December. This was a year in which I read about, political cover ups, financial scandals, Nazis, serial killers, thugs, drug dealers, human traffickers, lesbians, spies, police corruption, police violence, sex, [...]
Christmas is coming, the geese are getting fat, Please to put a penny in the old man’s hat: If you haven’t got a penny a ha’penny will do, If you haven’t got a ha’penny, God bless you! Merry Christmas, Happy Hannukah and Winter Solstice to everyone. I am having a short break from blogging as [...]
SWEET MONEY: ERNESTO MALLO trans KATHERINE SILVER
Posted: December 21, 2011 in Argentina, Historical, reviewSweet Money was first published as Delincuente argentino [Argentinean criminal] in 2007, and continues the story of Lascano, known as Perro [the dog], the honest cop left for dead at the end of Needle in a Haystack. The narrative has moved forward to Buenos Aires in the early 1980s when the junta has fallen, and [...]
Last night we watched the 2010 movie Inside Job which was not about some small bank robbery, but an analysis the financial crisis of 2008. To listen to the mumbling of distinguished economics professors such as ******** ********* as they tried to explain their actions, and explain reports they wrote such as ‘Financial Stability in Iceland’ [...]
Each of the books of Leighton Gage about Chief Inspector Mario Silva and the Brazilian Federal Police gives the reader a slightly different twist on the crime fiction novel. A Vine in the Blood Number five in this really excellent series is a police procedural who- dun-nit with naturally a Brazilian twist. Brazil is very [...]
This quiz may not be as difficult as those I have set in the past, simply because my old brain is seizing up, but I hope it will test your little grey cells a little. You will have till midnight 3 January 2012 GMT to get your entries in, and the winner will be able [...]
