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A beautiful and rich female detective looks for the killer of another rich and beautiful young woman while singing at a karaoke very late into the night when she's short on inspiration and longing for her son who was kidnapped several years ago.
Amanda and Clay head out to a remote corner of Long Island expecting a vacation: …
From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, a stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel about …
Strangely enough most reviews I've read said that this book was about WWII. True the events in the book do occur during that war but to me WWII was more like a prop than the subject of the work. Basically we see the the drama through the eyes of two children, a French blind girl (in her case of course it's more "we feel") and a German boy. But in fact it's much more about their respective internal worlds than about the war as such and if only to read how a young 15 years old blind girl first discovers the ocean, it's gigantic might and incredible mildness for the first time by sounds, smells and feelings on her skin is worth the effort (or in my case pleasure).
In "master of the legal thriller" (Chicago Sun-Times) John Lescroart's electrifying new novel, attorney Dismas …
Literally a translation from French meaning not very well put together (I.e. A piece of not white clothing is assembled with white thread with the result that all the joints are clearly visible).
As is the case in this book. One of the largest San Francisco lawyers cabinet takes on the newly nominated DA and is very surprised when the targeted person (DA) responds with all the might granted by his official power. But rest assured as their problem is solved when at the end the DA's wife surprises him in a compromising situation with his beautiful new secretary. So this wife (who had killed another person to help him and had plotted with him to kill another poor guy) suddenly (after more that 15 years of marriage) loses her wit, kills him and then commits suicide! How unlikely for such a cold headed woman and how practical for the …
Literally a translation from French meaning not very well put together (I.e. A piece of not white clothing is assembled with white thread with the result that all the joints are clearly visible).
As is the case in this book. One of the largest San Francisco lawyers cabinet takes on the newly nominated DA and is very surprised when the targeted person (DA) responds with all the might granted by his official power. But rest assured as their problem is solved when at the end the DA's wife surprises him in a compromising situation with his beautiful new secretary. So this wife (who had killed another person to help him and had plotted with him to kill another poor guy) suddenly (after more that 15 years of marriage) loses her wit, kills him and then commits suicide! How unlikely for such a cold headed woman and how practical for the lawyer firm that otherwise would have been in a real tight spot!
Every time I read something like this I wonder how this book can even pass a first reading by any publishing house...
Published to international critical and popular acclaim, this intensely romantic yet stunningly realistic novel spans …
Well written story of a British soldier a bit before and during the war.
Well written with interesting insights into the inner workings of that unique war which was the first one done with modern mechanized instruments of destruction.
In my opinion worth the read just for that.
"Comme tu peux le voir, il s'agit d'une oeuvre digne d'un maître de la Renaissance. …
A novel written as a long poem or a long poem written as a novel, not sure which. The main story is that of an Italian mountaineer helping refugees cross to the other side over the mountains, more or less expelled from his village by his peers, long time friends, because he always returned the money he had taken as a fee once the refugees had arrived on he other side. Going to another bigger town he's asked by the parish priest to undertake the restoration of a statue, originally the naked body of Christ on the cross, later covered by modesty with a layer of marble shaped into a mantel and now adhering to the main work.
As said written as a long sober, curt poem this same sobriety comes dangerously close to pedantism and got on my nerves after not too long.
Interesting nevertheless.
A Black father. A white father. Two murdered sons. A quest for vengeance.
Ike Randolph …
The style is good, dry, to the point terse writing. Not very believable that 2 old ex cons can hold their own against several gangs and corrupt members of high society but enjoyable nevertheless.
Bei Filmaufnahmen in einem isländischen Dorf stirbt der Hauptdarsteller Lárus vor laufender Kamera. Alles deutet …
It's not aa short work so the reader needs a lot of patience to hang in for more than a hundred pages where absolutely nothing is happening. But after that the pace really picks up and keeps you turning the pages until the end. German translation of an Icelandic author.
Siglufjorour: an idyllically quiet fishing village in Northern Iceland, where no one locks their doors …
Written as by an average student in fifth grade language class. Maybe a bad translation from Icelandic?
