French Exit – Patrick deWitt
“’All good things must end,’ said Frances Price. She was a moneyed, striking woman of sixty-five years, easing her hands into black…”
The Princess Bride – William Goldman
“This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it. How is such a thing possible? I’ll do my best to explain.”
Skipping Christmas – John Grisham
“The gate was packed with weary travelers, most of them standing and huddled along the walls because the meager allotment of plastic…”
Humour
All of my Humour book reviews, from Douglas Adams to Sally Rooney to John Kennedy Toole!
Good Omens – Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
“It was a nice day. All the days had been nice. There had been rather more than seven of them so far, and rain hadn’t been invented yet…”
The Colour of Magic – Terry Pratchett
“In a distant and secondhand set of dimensions, in an astral plane that was never meant to fly, the curling star-mists waver and part…”
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
“Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.”
Book Reviews by Genre
All of my book reviews by genre, from romance and classics to political satire and science fiction to fantasy and thrillers!