Through a Needle Darkly (A Book Review of Ken Follett’s Eye of the Needle) At the young age of twenty seven, Ken Follett met with instant success — both critical and financial — with his first international bestseller Eye of … Continue reading
Life Lessons from the Scrolls (A Book Review of Og Mandino’s The Greatest Salesman in the World) The Greatest Salesman in the World is a self-help classic from best-selling author Og Mandino. It’s a tiny book interspersed with powerful principles, … Continue reading
Chasing After a Lost Masterpiece (A Book Review of Ken Follett’s The Modigliani Scandal) The Modigliani Scandal is a lighthearted early caper from internationally renowned master thriller Ken Follett. The plot concerns Dee Sleign, an art historian on the hunt … Continue reading
Entangled With a Writer’s Mystery (A Book Review of Carlos Ruiz Zafón’s The Shadow of the Wind) The novel, set in post-Spanish civil war Barcelona, concerns a young boy, Daniel Sempere. Just after the war, Daniel’s father takes him to … Continue reading
Two Eccentric Magicians You’ll Love (A Book Review of Susanna Clarke’s Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell) A good word to describe my initial impressions of Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke, would be “daunting”. This masterwork of historical … Continue reading
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink (A Book Review) There are some books you know will stay with you forever, and Bernhard Schlink’s The Reader is definitely one of them. It has been highly critically acclaimed, winning the Boston Book Review’s … Continue reading
The novel skillfully combines words of wisdom, philosophy, and simplicity of meaning and language, which makes it particularly readable and accounts for its bestselling status. Continue reading
Seriously, it doesn’t take a genius to figure out why I started this all in the first place. But I’m getting ahead of myself and I’ve already said my piece, so why don’t we go ahead at the meat … Continue reading
