The Life of Webern: Musical Lives - Kathryn Bailey

Advantages: Fast-paced, adrenaline packed thriller. Won't disappoint!
Disadvantages: Quite bizarrely I kept finding myself singing "Living Doll". Annoying and irritating.

...dawns, it turns out that she is already too late. Daniel Pell has killed again, and is now free. Kathryn is put in charge of the investigation to re-capture Pell. The pace is set: this man must be caught before he kills more people. To catch Pell, it is essential to understand the man. A “cult” expert, Winston Kellogg is called in to assist. There are other people who are brought in to help Kathryn find out what makes Pell “tick”. Just one of these is the “Sleeping Doll”. This is the girl who was the only family member to live through Pell’s killings at her home. Because she slept through the entire ordeal she was left alive. What light can she shed on this dangerous criminal? Pell is loose and running. But where is he running to? Is all the help from her advisers enough to help Kathryn catch him? *** What I Thought *** Armed with my... Read review

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Advantages: Easy to understand and follow
Disadvantages: Nothing especially insightful, interesting or thrilling to be found herein

...with irritating results. In a bid to be as descriptive and passionate about drawing the reader in as possible, Fox overdoes the descriptive prose in a manner that I'd expect from an A level student thinking they're more competent than in fact they are. I actually folded down the corner of one page early on which contained a line that made me particularly cringe: "Kate felt sympathy for the couple but wondered how much of this was a family problem. It could not be easy living with a fastidious mother who saw her daughter's weight as a problem, and a stepfather who openly praised her curves." I don't know about everybody else, but I personally feel that if that was your biggest problem in life you should be down on your knees praising the skies for your good fortune. It just seems to me like Fox was struggling to create a troubled scenario of which she... Read review

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Advantages: A great collection
Disadvantages: More ancient and medieval information would be nice

...The Oxford Book of London by Paul Bailey Oxford University Press Well, perhaps not definitive London, but a good collection nonetheless. Like most modern histories of London, the books pays only cursory attention to the period prior the Norman Conquest; there is a simple reason for this -- not much exists text-wise to give account of life, history, etc. prior to this time. However, there is increasing documentation from archaeological finds as well as extended knowledge of non-English document sources now available that refer to London; London's history predates even the Roman settlement of Londinium, but certainly it has been a centre of life, if not for the whole nation, at least the south-east of Britain, for over two thousand years. The Oxford Book of London, edited by Paul Bailey, is divided into three sections: Part I, Twelfth... Read review

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