Suggest a Christmas Title
We've all read books set at Christmas time or related to Christmas in some way.The aim of this meme is to allow bloggers to link back to posts on their site that relate to books about Christmas.To make it easier for readers to locate books in their preferred g

Review: BEAUTIFUL LIES, Lisa Unger
This is another of the reviews I wrote 3 years ago, and had posted elsewhere.Bantam/Random House Australia, May 2006The day thirty-plus Ridley Jones rescues a little boy from the path of an oncoming vehicle is the day her own life changes forever. When the initial flurry of media coverage dies down, and her photograph has been printed on the front page of a number of New York newspapers, Ridley is contacted by s

Forgotten Book? BLACK AS HE'S PAINTED, Ngaio Marsh
This week's contribution to Pattinase's Friday's Forgotten Books.According to my records, I read this on Australia Day (26th January) in 1977.For those not familiar with her, Dame Ngaio Marsh (1895-1982) was a New Zealand cri

Review: THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET'S NEST, Stieg Larsson
MacLehose Press, 2009. Translated from Swedish by Reg Keeland. Originally published in Sweden in 2007. Author Stieg Larsson died in 2004 at the age of 50.ISBN 978-1-906694-16-6I read my copy on my Kindle.The story opens with Lisbeth Salander's admission to Emergency at the Salengrenska hospital in Goteborg with a gunshot wound to the head. At the same time a second patient, her father, is to be admitted with severe ax

Comic View: THE CHALK CIRCLE MAN
Please visit Unshelved for a full size view of the ComicMy review: 4.5, THE CHALK CIRCLE MAN, Fred Vargas