The Murder of Roger Ackroyd – Agatha Christie
Book #695 Reviewer: Ms Oh Waily I will put my cards on the table right at the start. I have loved Agatha Christie’s work since I was a teenager, when I owned pretty much her entire works in secondhand...
View ArticleEmma – Jane Austen
Book #936 Reviewer: Ms Oh Waily The option of reading and reviewing a classic by Jane Austen is rather a relaxing entry in to a summer of 1001 Books for me. I had read her entire canon when I was a...
View ArticleThe Dispossessed – Ursula K. LeGuin
Book # 326a Reviewer: Kara This classic novel of science fiction is the story of Shevek, a physicist from a 150-year-old socialist-anarchist experimental utopia on a moon. He has begun to see cracks in...
View ArticleThe House of Mirth – Edith Wharton
Book #770 Reviewer: Kara There is something about Lily Bart that sets her apart for everyone else in The House of Mirth. She is stunningly beautiful, which matters a lot to many of the men in the...
View ArticleHome – Marilynne Robinson
Book # 7b Reviewer: Tall, Short, Tiny & a Pickle The accolades for Marilynne Robinson’s Home are splashed across and inside the cover of the copy I borrowed from my local library. “One of the...
View ArticleSome Prefer Nettles – Junichiro Tanizaki
Book # 688a Reviewer: Kara Some Prefer Nettles is about Kaname and Misako, a married couple that is no longer in love. Both are having affairs, both are interested in divorce, but both are putting off...
View ArticleSense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
Book #940 Reviewer: Ms Oh Waily After visiting the Regency world by re-reading Emma and reviewing it here at the end of last year, I thought I would continue to reacquaint myself with the four Jane...
View ArticleWritten on the body – Jeanette Winterson
Book #154 Reviewer: Ms Oh Waily This is the second of four books by Jeanette Winterson to be reviewed here at the 1001 Books list. The first was Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit. Having read and...
View ArticleThe Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
Book #242 Reviewer: Ms Oh Waily The Handmaid’s Tale is a dystopian novel, published in 1985, which won the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the Governor General’s Award. The setting is the near future in the...
View ArticleThe Gathering – Anne Enright
Book #9b Reviewer: Ms Oh Waily Published in 2007, this novel won the Man Booker Prize in the same year and two further Irish book awards the following year. Set predominantly in Dublin, the narrator is...
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