Advantages: An okay read if you like short stories. Disadvantages: Not a gripping read and stories are very short.
Come On Maeve- Write Something We Can Get Our Teeth Into! I think I have read all of Maeve Binchy's novels. Since I first read her 1982 novel, 'Light a Penny Candle' I have admired her writing skills and always looked forward to a new nov ...
Advantages: easy to read, intriguing characters, can identify with Disadvantages: sometimes confusing
I can't remember how I first picked up this book; I think it was when I was bored at work in a shop that sold books among other things. Having read parts of it at work, I was so intrigued that I bought it there and then and finished reading it at home. ...
Advantages: A very good lesson! Disadvantages: Slow in places
...Like I said, forget 'Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus' or any other self help book promising to enlighten you into the wiley ways of the oppositte sex, this book will teach you far more than you expect!
The teachings are given within a storyline ...
Advantages: humoourous, imaginative and superbly written Disadvantages: slightly dark humour may not appeal to all
The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman is the hilarous sequel to The War of Don Emmanuels Nether Parts and continues the history of the surreal South American country which de Bernieres created in that book.
The president is still undertaking his ...
...This story is a great read and is packed with amusement, imagination and creativity. It is very well written and is interesting throughout. I was hooked from the very start and the story is compelling and reveals the latin culture well. As usual, the wit ...
