Saturday, August 1, 2009

All Book Reviews

3191 Blog - A Year of Mornings
 
Ackland, Valentine - For Sylvia
Adams, Poppy - The Behaviour of Moths
Alpha of the Plough - Leaves in the Wind
Anand, Mulk Raj - Untouchable
Anderson, Sarah - Halfway to Venus
Ardizzone, Edward - The Young Ardizzone
Arlen, Michael - The Green Hat
Ashworth, Jenn - A Kind of Intimacy
Athill, Diana - Stet
Atwood, Margaret - The Penelopiad
Austen, Jane - Northanger Abbey
Ayckbourn, Alan - The Crafty Art of Playmaking
Ayckbourn, Alan - Relatively Speaking
 
Bailey, Jenna - Can Any Mother Help Me?
Bainbridge, Beryl - Injury Time
Bainbridge, Beryl - Sweet William
Bainbridge, Beryl - Something Happened Yesterday
Baker, Frank - Miss Hargreaves
Baker, Frank - Miss Hargreaves (second review)
Baker, Frank - Miss Hargreaves : the play
Baker, Frank - Stories of the Strange and Sinister
Baker, Frank - Mr. Allenby Loses The Way
Banks, Lynne Reid - The L-Shaped Room
Barbal, Maria - Stone in a Landslide
Barbery, Muriel - The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Barford, Mirren and John Lewes - Joy Street: A Wartime Romance in Letters 1940-42
Barnes, Julian - The Sense of an Ending
Beauman, Nicola - The Other Elizabeth Taylor
Bedford, Sybille - A Favourite of the Gods
Benatar, Stephen - Wish Her Safe At Home
Benedictus, David - Return to the Hundred Acre Wood
Bennett, Alan - The Uncommon Reader
Bennett, Alan - The History Boys
Benson, E.F. - The Mapp & Lucia series
Benson, E.F. - Secret Lives
Benson, Stella - Living Alone
Bentley, Nicolas - How Can You Bear To Be Human?
Betts, P.Y. - People Who Say Goodbye
Bioy Casares, Adolfo - The Invention of Morel
Brittney, Lynn - Christine Kringle
Brookner, Anita - Hotel du Lac
Brown, George Mackay - Andrina and other stories
Burney, Frances - Evelina
Buzbee, Lewis - The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop

Campbell, Jen - Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops 
Camus, Albert - The Outsider
Cannan, Joanna - Princes in the Land
Capote, Truman - In Cold Blood 
Carey, Edward - Alva & Irva
Carey, Edward - Observatory Mansions
Carhart, Thad - The Piano Shop on the Left Bank
Carr, J. L. - A Month In The Country
Carroll, Lewis - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland 
Carter, Angela - Wise Children 
Cartwright, Justin - This Secret Garden: Oxford Revisited
Chatto, Beth and Christopher Lloyd - Dear Friend and Gardener
Chesterton, G.K. - The Man Who Was Thursday 
Cholmondeley, Mary - Red Pottage
Chopin, Kate - Portraits
Christie, Agatha - The Murder at the Vicarage
Christie, Agatha - The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Christie, Agatha - One, Two, Buckle My Shoe 
Christie, Agatha - DumbWitness
Christie, Agatha - Five Little Pigs
Clapp, Susannah - A Card From Angela Carter 
Coetzee, J. M. - Foe
Colegate, Isabel - The Shooting Party
Coles, William - The Well-Tempered Clavier
Collier, John - His Monkey Wife 
Colquhoun, Kate - Mr. Brigg's Hat
Compton-Burnett, Ivy - A House and Its Head
Compton-Burnett, Ivy - Parents and Children
Compton-Burnett, Ivy - Manservant & Maidservant
Compton-Burnett, Ivy - Pastors and Masters
Compton-Burnett, Ivy - More Women Than Men
Compton-Burnett, Ivy - Elders and Betters 
Comyns, Barbara - Sisters By A River
Comyns, Barbara - The House of Dolls
Comyns, Barbara - The Juniper Tree
Comyns, Barbara - Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead
Comyns, Barbara - The Vet's Daughter
Comyns, Barbara - The Skin Chairs
Conrad, Joseph - Heart of Darkness
Crompton, Richmal - Frost at Morning
Crompton, Richmal - Matty and the Dearingroydes
Crompton, Richmal - Still William

Dangarembga, Tsitsi - Nervous Conditions 
Delafield, E.M. - The Provincial Lady
Delafield, E.M. - Straw Without Bricks: I Visit The Soviets
Delafield, E.M. - As Others Hear Us
Delafield, E.M. - Gay Life
Delafield, E.M. - Zella Sees Herself
Delafield, E.M. - Three Marriages
Delius, F.C. - Portrait of the Woman as a Young Mother
Dench, Judi - And Furthermore
Dennys, Joyce - Henrietta's War
Dennys, Joyce - Repeated Doses
Devine, Harriet - Being George Devine's Daughter
Devonshire, Deborah (Deborah Mitford) - Counting My Chickens
Devonshire, Deborah - Home To Roost
Devonshire, Deborah - Wait for Me!
Dick, Kay - Ivy and Stevie
Dickens, Charles - Great Expectations
Dickens, Monica - One Pair of Feet
Dickens, Monica - The Winds of Heaven
Dickens, Monica & Beverley Nichols - Yours Sincerely
Dockrill, Laura - Mistakes in the Background
Dominguez, Carlos Maria - The Paper House
Dostoevsky, Fyodor - The Eternal Husband
Dostoevsky, Fyodor - The Double  
Drabble, Margaret - The Garrick Year
du Maurier, Daphne - The Flight of the Falcon
du Maurier, Daphne - My Cousin Rachel
du Maurier, Daphne - Letters from Menabilly
du Maurier, Daphne - Frenchman's Creek
du Maurier, Daphne - Frenchman's Creek (OVW's review)
Dunn, Mark - Ella Minnow Pea

Elinger, John & Kathy Shock - That Sweet City: Visions of Oxford
Eliot, T.S. - The Family Reunion
Essex, Mary - The Amorous Bicycle
Essex, Mary - Six Fools and a Fairy
Evens, Brecht - The Wrong Place
Fowler, Karen Joy - The Jane Austen Book Club
Garnett, David - Lady Into Fox
Garnett, David - A Man in the Zoo
Gaskell, Elizabeth - Cousin Phillis
Gavron, Asaf - Croc Attack!
Gillard, Linda - A Lifetime Burning
Gillard, Linda - Star Gazing
Gillard, Linda - House of Silence
Giono, Jean - The Man Who Planted Trees
Girouard, Mark - Enthusiasms 
Gordon-Cumming, Jane - A Proper Family Christmas
Gordon-Cumming, Jane - The Haunted Bridge
Grace, N.B. - High School Musical: The Book of the Film (!)
Graham, Virginia - Say Please
Graham, Virginia - Here's How
Graham, Virginia - Consider The Years
Green, Henry - Blindness  
Green, John - The Fault in Our Stars
Greenberg, Michael - Beg, Borrow, Steal: A Writer's Life
Greene, Graham - Travels With My Aunt
Greene, Graham - The End of the Affair
Greig, Cicely - Ivy Compton Burnett: A Memoir 
Hartley, Jenny - Reading Groups
Hartley, L. P. - Simonetta Perkins
Hill, Susan - The Battle for Gullywith
Hill, Susan - Howards End is on the Landing
Hill, Susan - The Beacon
Hill, Susan - In the Springtime of the Year
Hill, Susan - A Kind Man
Hillis, Marjorie - Live Alone and Like It
Hosseini, Khaled - The Kite Runner
Howe, Bea - A Fairy Leapt Upon My Knee
Humble, Nicola - The Feminine Middlebrow Novel
Hunt, Rebecca - Mr. Chartwell

Ishiguro, Kazuo - Never Let Me Go
Ivey, Eowyn - The Snow Child
 
Jackson, Shirley - The Haunting of Hill House
Jackson, Shirley - The Bird's Nest
Jackson, Shirley - We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Jackson, Shirley - Life Among the Savages
Jackson, Shirley - Raising Demons 
Jackson, Shirley - The Lottery and other stories 
James, Henry - The Turn of the Screw
Jansson, Tove - A Winter Book
Jansson, Tove - The Summer Book
Jansson, Tove - The True Deceiver
Jansson, Tove - Travelling Light
Jansson, Tove - Art in Nature
Jansson, Tove - Moominpappa at Sea 
Jenkins, Michael - A House in Flanders 
Jerome, Jerome K. - Three Men in a Boat
Jerome, Jerome K. - Three Men on the Bummel
Johnston, Jennifer - The Gingerbread Woman
Jordan, Robert - The Eye of the World

Kafka, Franz - Metamorphosis
Kaufman, Andrew - The Tiny Wife
Kaye-Smith, Sheila - All The Books of My Life
Kaye-Smith, Sheila and G.B. Stern - Talking of Jane Austen
Kaye-Smith, Sheila and G.B. Stern - More Talk of Jane Austen
Keane, Molly - Young Entry
Keller, Helen - The World I Live In
Kendal, Felicity - White Cargo
Kennedy, Margaret - Jane Austen 
Kennedy, A.L. - On Writing
Kennedy, Richard - A Boy at the Hogarth Press
Kerr, Jean - Please Don't Eat The Daisies
Kingsolver, Barbara - The Poisonwood Bible 
Koppel, Lily - The Red Leather Diary
Kosztolányi, Dezső - Skylark
Kundera, Milan - Immortality
Kundera, Milan - Identity
Kundera, Milan - The Joke
Lawson, Mary - Crow Lake
Leacock, Stephen - Literary Lapses
Leduc, Violette - The Lady and the Little Fox Fur
Lee, Harper - To Kill A Mockingbird
Lee, Hermione - A Very Short Introduction to Biography
Leigh, Mike - Abigail's Party
Leighton, Clare - Four Hedges
Lelord, Francois - Hector and the Search for Happiness
Leverson, Ada - Love's Shadow
Leverson, Ada - Love at Second Sight
Lewis, C.S. - A Grief Observed
Lickorish Quinn, Karina - Shrinking Violet
Light, Alison - Forever England
Lindsay, David - The Haunted Woman
Lindsay, Joan - Picnic at Hanging Rock
Logan, John - Peter and Alice
Longford, Christine - Making Conversation
Loos, Anita - Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Macaulay, Rose - Crewe Train
Macaulay, Rose - Keeping Up Appearances
Macaulay, Rose - Dangerous Ages
Macaulay, Rose - Personal Pleasures
Macaulay, Rose - The World My Wilderness 
MacDonald, Betty - The Egg and I 
Maclaren-Ross, Julian - Of Love and Hunger
Manguel, Alberto - Stevenson Under The Palm Trees
Manguel, Alberto - The Library at Night
Mankowitz, Wolf - A Kid For Two Farthings
Mansfield, Katherine - Selected Stories
Mansfield, Katherine - In a German Pension
Maugham, W. Somerset - Up At The Villa 
Maxtone Graham, Ysenda - Mr. Tibbits's Catholic School
Maxwell, Gavin - Ring of Bright Water
Maxwell, William - They Came Like Swallows
Maxwell, William - So Long, See You Tomorrow 
Maxwell, William & Sylvia Townsend Warner - The Element of Lavishness
Maxwell, William & Eudora Welty - What There Is To Say We Have Said
Maxwell, W.B. - Spinster of this Parish
Mayor, F.M. - The Rector's Daughter 
McEwan, Ian - On Chesil Beach
McEwan, Ian - Black Dogs
Milne, A. A. - Year In, Year Out
Mitford, Nancy - The Pursuit of Love
Mitford, Nancy - Frederick the Great
The Mitfords - Letters Between Six Sisters (a)
The Mitfords - Letters Between Six Sisters (b)
Moran, Caitlin - Moranthology
Myers, Elizabeth - A Well Full of Leaves
Myers, L.H. - Strange Glory
Myron, Vicki - Dewey

Nemirovsky, Irene - Suite Francaise
Nemirovsky, Irene - David Golder
Nesbit, E. - The Railway Children 
Nesbit, E. - The Enchanted Castle
Nicholls, David - One Day
Niffenegger, Audrey - The Time Traveler's Wife
Norton, Mary - The Bread and Butter Stories
Pearce, Philippa - Tom's Midnight Garden
Penney, Stef - The Tenderness of Wolves
Rowling, J. K. - The Harry Potter series
Saki - The Penguin Complete Saki
Saki - A Shot in the Dark
Saki - The Unbearable Bassington
Saki - The Westminster Alice
Saki - When William Came
Saki - Reginald in Russia
Sam, Anna - Checkout: A Life on the Tills
Sangster, Alfred - The Brontes
Saumarez Smith, John - A Spy in the Bookshop
Scharlieb, Mary - What It Means To Marry
Schein, Elyse & Paula Bernstein - Identical Strangers
Schreiner, Olive - The Story of an African Farm
Sellers, Susan - Vanessa and Virginia
Shaffer, Mary Ann - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Shaw, Ali - The Girl With Glass Feet
Shaw, George Bernard - Man and Superman
Shelley, Mary - Frankenstein
Sheridan, Richard B. - The Rivals
Sinclair, May - Life and Death of Harriett Frean
Sinclair, May - Uncanny Stories
Sjon - The Blue Fox
Smith, Dodie - I Capture the Castle
Smith, Dodie - The Town in Bloom
Smith, Dodie - Look Back With Love 
Smith, Dodie - Dear Octopus  
Smith, Dorothy Evelyn - Miss Plum and Miss Penny
Smith, Emma - The Great Western Beach
Smith, Emma - Maidens' Trip
Solomon, Laura - Alternative Medicine
Solomons, Natasha - Mr. Rosenblum's List
Spalding, Frances - Insights: The Bloomsbury Group
Spark, Muriel - The Driver's Seat
Spark, Muriel - Loitering With Intent
Spark, Muriel - Memento Mori
Spark, Muriel - The Abbess of Crewe
Spark, Muriel - The Takeover 
Spark, Muriel - The Ballad of Peckham Rye
Spark, Muriel - The Only Problem 
Spark, Muriel - Reality and Dreams 
Spark, Muriel - Symposium
Spark, Muriel - Curriculum Vitae
Sprigge, Elizabeth - The Life of Ivy Compton-Burnett
Spurling, Hilary - La Grande Thérèse 
Stacey, Tom - The Man Who Knew Everything
Steinbeck, John - The Pearl
Stephenson, Simon - Let Not The Waves of the Sea
Stevens, Michael - V. Sackville-West
Stevenson, D.E. - Miss Buncle's Book
Stevenson, D.E. - Mrs. Tim of the Regiment
Stockett, Kathryn - The Help
Stonier, G.W. - Shaving Through the Blitz
Stopes, Marie - Married Love
Strachan, Mari - The Earth Hums in B Flat
Strachey, Julia - Cheerful Weather for the Wedding
Strachey, Julia - Cheerful Weather for the Wedding (readalong)
Streatfeild, Noel - Saplings
Struther, Jan - Mrs. Miniver
Struther, Jan - Try Anything Twice
Summerscale, Kate - The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher
Sutcliff, Rosemary - Blue Remembered Hills
Szymborska, Wislawa - People on a Bridge

Taylor, Elizabeth - Angel
Taylor, Elizabeth - Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
Taylor, Elizabeth - A Game of Hide and Seek
Taylor, Elizabeth - At Mrs. Lippincote's
Taylor, Elizabeth - A View of the Harbour  
Thomas, Edward - Oxford
Thorton, Rosy - Hearts and Minds
Todd, Barbara Euphan - Miss Ranskill Comes Home
Tomalin, Claire - Katherine Mansfield : A Secret Life
Toole, John Kennedy - A Confederacy of Dunces
Townsend, Sue - Adrian Mole series 
Townsend, Sue - The Queen and I
Trapido, Barbara - Brother of the More Famous Jack
Trefusis, Violet - Echo
Trevelyan, G.E. - Appius and Virginia
Trillin, Calvin - Tepper Isn't Going Out
Trillin, Calvin - Deadline Poet 
Trillin, Calvin - About Alice 
Trillin, Calvin - Floater
Trollope, Anthony - The Warden
Truss, Lynne - Making the Cat Laugh
Tsiolkas, Christos - The Slap
Tutton, Diana - Guard Your Daughters

Vanbrugh, Irene - To Tell My Story

Wallace, Danny - Yes Man
Warner, Sylvia Townsend - Lolly Willowes
Warner, Sylvia Townsend - Summer Will Show  
Warner, Sylvia Townsend - Time Importuned 
Warner, Sylvia Townsend - Opus 7
Warner, Sylvia Townsend and William Maxwell - The Element of Lavishness
Warner, Sylvia Townsend - Jane Austen
Warner, Sylvia Townsend - With The Hunted 
Warner, Sylvia Townsend - The Corner That Held Them 
Waterfield, Giles - The Long Afternoon
Waters, Sarah - The Little Stranger
Waters, Sarah - The Night Watch
Waugh, Evelyn - Put Out More Flags
Waugh, Evelyn - The Loved One
Waugh, Evelyn - Scoop
Webb, Mary - Gone To Earth 
Webster, Jean - Daddy Long-legs
Whipple, Dorothy - Someone at a Distance
Wigfall, Clare - The Loudest Sound and Nothing
Winman, Sarah - When God Was A Rabbit   
Wiseman, Robert - Quirkology
Wodehouse, P.G. - Indiscretions of Archie
Wodehouse, P.G. - Aunts Aren't Gentlemen
Wodehouse, P.G. - Right Ho, Jeeves
Wolff, Tobias - In the Garden of the North American Martyrs
Wolff-Mönckeberg, Mathilde - On The Other Side
Woolf, Leonard & Trekkie Ritchie Parsons - Love Letters
Woolf, Virginia - Flush
Woolf, Virginia - Orlando
Young, Angela - Speaking of Love
Young, E.H. - Miss Mole 
Young, E.H. - William
Young, E.H. - The Misses Mallett
 
Zaid, Gabriel - So Many Books
Zusak, Markus - The Book Thief
Various - Man Proposes
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